Essay
In November 1620 the Mayflower deposited about 100 Pilgrims at the Wampanoag community of Patuxet, which the newcomers renamed New Plymouth. A year later, the English and Wampanoags enjoyed a …
Connecting California
How will California ever solve the mental health crisis among its young people?
Perhaps by empowering young people to do the job themselves.
That, at least, is what happening in the state’s …
Essay
For the last five years, I’ve researched Valley fever at a multidisciplinary lab at the University of California, Merced. This experience has convinced me that for my work to pay …
In the Green Room
Culture Class
Across the United States, group chats are blowing up. Who’s bringing dessert? A side dish? A casserole? The wine? More wine?
The discourse isn’t necessarily anchored to the fourth Thursday in …
In the Green Room
Essay
On September 8, 1943, Hans Heinrich Festersen was hanged at Berlin’s Plötzensee prison. Festersen, 35, had been arrested almost a year earlier, on October 12, 1942, for violating Paragraph 175, …
The Takeaway
It is said that Los Angeles lacks a literary pulse—that the flash and glam of Tinseltown overpowers the cultural terrain. But writers here deftly channel this city’s rhythms, spinning fictions …
