BY KYLE STARON MARCH 02, 2021 Published in Slate The New Guy seemed dazed as he toured the office with his predecessor. Tall and hunched, like a pro athlete five years into retirement, the New Guy looked too old to be…
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Amma: A story about generational trauma, the honor system, and love
By S Zahra Fatima Shah The Amma I remember is small yet stout, old and grey, how grandmothers are described in books. I remember her as the distant mother to my father. The slightly acerbic mother-in-law to my mother. The…
A Career in Counterterrorism
BY JACK STONE TRUITT Throughout his 26 year career in counterterrorism at the FBI, John Anticev experienced some of the most significant failures and successes in American counterintelligence. He saw Islamic terrorism shift from a back-burner issue to the bureau’s…
Nepal’s Maoist insurgents target Sanskrit as a symbol of the regime they want to overthrow
BY SHRUTI MANIAN Ira Regmi and her father had just ordered tea at a bhatti and taken their seats when sudden screams rang through the bustling market. “They’re coming, they’re coming,” shouted people in the street outside. Shoppers and passers-by…
An Average Mindanao Monday at Work Turns into a Death and Destruction After Bombing
BY KEVIN CORBIN I got up at sunbreak on a typical Monday morning, only to find there was no water for showering today. Not a problem, as I tossed on a formal Filipino shirt, shouted goodbye to the guards, and…
No Refuge
BY NICOLE SCHILIT Maya Paley’s cell phone rings frequently but when she answers the call the person on the other line will immediately hang up. Instead of getting annoyed Maya calls the person right back. “It’s usually only the refugees…
Once a Marine
BY LAUREN SCHULZ NEW YORK – I met Allen Striffler for the first time on the steps of the New York Athletic Club in the fall of 2009. We had both just left a gala where Allen was being honored. …
Imperfect Marriage: Amnesty and Cageprisoners
SARIKA BANSAL Finding the perfect organizational partner can be tricky. Human rights groups are no exception to this. To be effective, they often must work with other groups, including NGOs, for-profit companies, and even autocratic governments. Some partnerships work beautifully,…
Ending Violence against Women in Zimbabwe
By Mónica Adame “I had been at the base for about two days when a group of three men instructed me to enter a room. They forced me to lie on the ground and stripped off all of my clothes.…
The Music Man of Grozny
BY MATT LUCAS Somewhere in the lost alleyways of Grozny, if you know the right place to go, you can hear Ruslan play his old records from before the wars. Zeppelin, Hendrix, Marley, the great jazzmen, the blues. According to…