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Glimpses
The Hmong Dolls We Lost, and the Story I Found
I Couldn’t Save These Hand-Sewn Heirlooms From a Fire, But I Could Preserve Their History—And Maybe Even Part of My Heritage
The dolls were a seemingly trivial loss in the larger scheme of what went up in smoke when a fire burned through my neighborhood in the summer of 2020.
My family …
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The Takeaway
A Feminist-Led Uprising Brings the World to Iran’s Fight
This Time Around, Social Media and Youth Fuel the Call for “Women, Life, Freedom”
Last night, a quartet of Iranian women took the Zócalo stage to discuss the uprising in Iran, where a general strike has entered its third day and protests persist after …
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Connecting California
All California Kids Want for Christmas Is a Tutor
Forget Naughty or Nice, Every Student Should Get the Gift of Academic Support This Holiday Season
Tutor us, Santa baby.
And don’t bother bringing Californians another four lords-a-leaping or eight swans-a-swimming, St. Nick. What we need this year are nearly 5.9 million tutors—one for each and every …
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Essay
Iran’s New Revolutionary Figure Is Feminist
The Women at the Heart of the Movement Offer Potent Visions of Social Change
The feminist uprising in Iran—sparked by the beating, arrest, and death in police custody of Mahsa (also known by Jîna) Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman accused of “improper hijab”—is …
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Essay
How the Pandemic Changed My Time in Prison
An Inmate Reflects on Nearly Three Years of Shifting Health Protocols and Halted Rehabilitation Efforts
Intense debates about the role of government interventions in public health became the norm during the pandemic. When do the benefits of prevention and containment policies aimed at stopping COVID’s …
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Connecting California
Goodbye to My Family’s Last Okie Migrant, Who Taught Us to Be Californian
The Passing of Great Aunt Fern Marks an Era’s End
“They had qualities of humor and courage and inventiveness and energy that appealed to me. I thought that if we had a national character and a national genius, …
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Essay
How Germany Developed a ‘Policy on the Past’
A Constellation of Days Has Emerged to Remember the Holocaust and Its Victims
Germany does not have a traditional, centuries-old national holiday, such as July 14 in France or July 4 in the United States.
But Germany is carefully attuned to dates, and how …