Does the Holocaust teach us anything about modern-day genocide? (Oh, and happy new year)
Things are quiet on this blog while we’re preparing for a server transfer and redesign. But here’s a nice graph from a piece in…
Read MoreThings are quiet on this blog while we’re preparing for a server transfer and redesign. But here’s a nice graph from a piece in…
Read MoreIn Africa, what money can buy sometimes depends on who’s doing the spending. Reporter Jina Moore tries to negotiate Rwanda’s two economies – one…
Read MoreWhen we travel to a foreign country, we often bring our assumptions with us. That’s what reporter Jina Moore did during a trip to…
Read MoreNew York — There are no iPods in this report. There are also no digital e-readers, no flat-screen televisions, no snowblowers, or lawn mowers…
Read MoreHere we are again: Even as the recession groans onward, box stores and boutiques alike are attempting to pry dollars from our clenched, fearful…
Read MoreFrancine Prose’s Anne Frank is not, strictly speaking, a book about Anne Frank. That’s a good thing: We’ve had quite a few of those,…
Read MoreThe best indication that John Drengenberg has been doing his job well, for 40 years, is that you’ve never heard of him. Most of…
Read MorePortland, Ore. — Six sophomores at Grant High School sit, shoulders slumping slightly, before two lawyers. The room fills with nervous expectation. Here, the…
Read MoreThere is a scene in A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek that seems to be playing on repeat. We’ve been watching it for…
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