On Saturday, August 3rd, Nan Whaley, the mayor of Dayton, Ohio, had a day off and a full schedule. She attended a Baptist pastor’s hooding ceremony, a public event for a Japanese sister city, and a luau held by a local nonprofit’s C.E.O. That night, she and her husband, Sam Braun, joined friends at a […]
Since John Delaney declared his candidacy for President, in July of 2017, earlier than any of his opponents and more than three years before Election Day, he has languished at around one per cent in most national polls. He has raised just two million dollars, a fraction of the funds that front-runners such as Joe […]
After the massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, Latinos across America are feeling shaken and terrified. Aura Bogado, an investigative reporter at Reveal, a publication from the Center for Investigative Reporting, asked her Latino followers on Twitter how they were feeling after the shootings. The last time I checked, she had […]
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Linda Corchado, an immigration lawyer in El Paso, is the director of legal services at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center. She was born and raised in El Paso, and, aside from stints in Pennsylvania and New York, for college and law school, she has lived and worked in her native city for her entire life. […]
The financial crisis and crumbling morale of New York City in the late seventies is the backdrop to “The Kitchen,” a drama about three mob wives who, when their husbands are imprisoned, support themselves with gangster endeavors of their own. For all the movie’s dangerous conflict and physical violence, and despite the dramatic reconstruction of […]
In the Amazon, or in the parts of the Amazon that people have mowed down and converted into grazing pasture, the average abattoir-bound cow has nearly three acres to himself. Nice for the cow, perhaps, but senseless and dangerous in every other way. Every year, on average, tropical deforestation adds ten to fifteen per cent […]
Last year, I had a strange dream. My father and I were wading in an industrial canal, reminiscent of a subway, as thousands of hatchery-raised fish were being released into it. The fish crowded, slimy, around our legs, and I knew (in the way that one knows in a dream) that they thought, as they […]
When she looked at you and addressed you by your Christian name, she made it sound like a promise, one that stood on the side of everything that was juicy, smart, black, amused, yours. In the old days, when ladies were “colored” and she herself was just a child, she had learned from those ladies, […]
In the Amazon, or in the parts of the Amazon that people have mowed down and converted into grazing pasture, the average abattoir-bound cow has nearly three acres to himself. Nice for the cow, perhaps, but senseless and dangerous in every other way. Every year, on average, tropical deforestation adds ten to fifteen per cent […]