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King in the North

• Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu

Like many others, when posting pictures of myself and friends on social media, I find myself captioning them #YaranNorthSide.

Published on Nov 20, 2019 12:00PM EST

2 de Octubre no se olvida

• Jose Benjamin Montaño

Before 4 o’ clock, I caught a north-bound train on line 3 from campus to join the protest.

Published on Oct 29, 2019 3:00PM EDT

Man was born for love and revolution

• Brian Hioe

I knew my reasons for wanting to be there were primarily emotional, not logical.

Published on Oct 3, 2019 11:00AM EDT

Palimpsest

• Idza Luhumyo

But there he is again, a few pages later, with his tiny cursive handwriting.

Published on Aug 26, 2019 12:00PM EDT

The Case for Climate Rage

• Amy Westervelt

"I barely know your kids and I feel like I would jump in front of a bus to stop this shit."

Published on Aug 19, 2019 12:00PM EDT

When the scam artist realizes you’re not going to fall for it

• Brian Hioe

This hair salon auntie also seemed like a somewhat unreliable narrator.

Published on Jul 30, 2019 3:15PM EDT

Reflections of a Grave-Digger

• Alan Hanson

I mourned New York, the relationship, my friend.

Published on Jun 6, 2019 2:00PM EDT

The Billboards of Sonoma County

• Felix Kent

The incredibly ugly Korbel billboard made me actively twitchy the way the Emerald Cup billboard did.

Published on May 5, 2019 12:00PM EDT

The Sound of Music

• Keguro Macharia

I suspect we learned about Nazism in some unit or other, but it was buried under everything else we had to learn: how to castrate a bull, the three arms of government, Kenya’s cash crops, and how to sycophant for the Dictator Moi.

Published on Apr 30, 2019 1:59PM EDT