by Jada Bullen My family had never shared the full story about the bloody day atop Fort Rupert that forever changed Grenada’s history and their lives. Thirty-eight years later, I finally started asking questions, and the stories they shared changed…
Month: February 2022
Nazi soldiers found a new home in Argentina. So did their antisemitism.
by Veruska Carballo Fontevecchia After Nazis found refuge in Argentina, a network of German schools helped them spread their dangerous ideology in their new home. Decades later, those schools are still fueling a culture of antisemitism in the country. Mónica…
Reconciliation: Understanding and Forgiving After the Croatian War
by Nick Chun In light of the ethnic tensions that remained after the end of the Croatian War, a social worker worked in reconciliation and community-building to help youth form new ties, all while discovering new lessons for herself. Diana…
Diplomats in exile: how Afghan representatives prepared for the fall of their government.
by Dyna Faid After serving their country for years, Muhammad Naeemi and Luftallah Lufti were prepared to face the fall of their government, making the necessary arrangements to keep the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations open. Unexpected…
Smuggling guns is easier than buying notebooks
by Camila Hidalgo An increase in deadly riots within the most dangerous prisons in Ecuador has exposed a corrupt penal system and has revealed some of the dark reality of organized crime in the country. José, an inmate at El…
With A Small Bottle of Garden’s Soil, Massoud Left Afghanistan
by Nazila Jamshidi With the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, images and stories of the tragic rush of Afghans escaping the Taliban flooded the media across the world. The image of the gray military plane…
Profile: Linda Lee
by Avery Kim By 1 p.m., Linda Lee has taken her two young sons to school, gone to work in eastern Queens, and driven roundtrip to and from the Bronx to meet with a future New York City Council Member.…
The system is working exactly as it is intended
How the US asylum system uses a health regulation to racially discriminate by Dorothea Koehn “Title 42 is an obscure policy,” is one of the first things Jonathan Goldman, executive director of the Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice, told me…
Who Builds Peace
by Michael Thomson Although the address locates the peacebuilding organization where I interned in a plaza, it is actually just another nine-story mass of the limestone, reflective glass, and rebar that dominates central Amman. The security guard at the front…
Another Hebron Story
by Michael Thomson After work on an unusually quiet night, as I walk to my Palestinian host family’s residence nestled in the middle of the anarchic web of limestone buildings that make up Hebron’s Old City, I listen for any…