Independence Lost
Comparing the national security law that eliminates Hong Kong's independence to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Comparing the national security law that eliminates Hong Kong's independence to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Have you ever written a super-secret project, one you didn't want to tell *anyone*? That was me, for years, as I worked on draft after draft of a weird, multi-POV…
A review of a graphic novel/memoir about a South Korean university student's introduction to resistance against her country's dictatorship in 1983.
Thoughts on whether to keep the Covid-19 lockdown or open the country again, in the country we have rather than the one we wished we had.
How our actions as a collectivity raise or lower our chances of surviving the Covid-19 pandemic, thus making all of us a collective protagonist.
In fall 2005 my husband took our oldest child to Atlanta for his freshman year at Emory University. Derrick fell in love with Emory years before when he accompanied Richard…
Connecting the word "redemption," used at a MAGA rally, to the history of the 19th century Redemption that brought us Jim Crow.
Seeing the 2020 election not as a contest between two presidential candidates but as an up-or-down vote on democracy itself.
A report on the 2020 Women's March in NYC and why we need to start putting up Hong Kong numbers if we want to keep our democracy.
A celebration of Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel Prize in Literature, which also means celebrating her many translators. #bemoreolga