…and her mother spoke Spanish together, and that her mother was proud to expose a young Erika to Latin culture. But how long did they live in London? Erika went…
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…it became a Spanish colony in 1884 and eventually a province in 1934. When the Spanish began to withdraw in the 1970s, Morocco immediately initiated a campaign to seize Western…
…the Spanish Civil War. The timing for mounting an exhibit on the history of art in political activism was perfect. It was the fall of 2012, after America had finally…
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…network of community councils in neighborhoods and towns around the country, 15-M has found a way of articulating something that had been widely felt but not yet acknowledged. In many…
…at nineteen years ago with her husband. Inside, she sits at one of the six sewing tables. She takes a strip of fabric to attach to the main body of…
…finished. The PRI, as the party is known by its initials in Spanish, had relied on a vast but tight network of neighborhood leaders, predominantly older women, to bring in…
…to rethink safety nets. Right now, nets are being spread for the wrong people. But now we have to rethink safety nets. Right now, nets are being spread for the…
to me, and this single, piercing thought caused me to break out in a fit of screams. Though I remember screaming, I don’t remember how long I went on for,…
…became in the postwar years part of a social safety net for returning Japanese. My parents moved into the church parsonage, located about a mile and a half from the…
When I was only a few months old, a fortune-teller warned my mother of my financial recklessness. Recorded on a cassette tape that my mother used to listen to when…
…easily appeared in the cabinets of Park Avenue’s diners, all of it purchased from antiques stores on EBay. Over the three months of the project, Park Avenue Autumn received complaints…
…washcloth. The soapy water must be replaced by clear water, a clean washcloth, and a bath towel. Shaving cream, a razor, aftershave, a small mirror, and a hand towel come…
…to sell you face cream.” “I don’t use face cream,” said Amy. “You should,” said Donny. “Mom does.” Instinctively, Amy’s hand reached up to the softening skin around her throat….
…then start to scream and not stop. When Brian sees the look on my face he tells me to take as much time as I need. He’s worked here for…
…She ran for governor first under the Working Families party and later in the Democratic primary with her running mate, Columbia Law School professor and net neutrality pioneer Tim Wu….
…and eventually the wider internet. As a journalist and former academic, Petersen has a knack for looking critically at, yet writing colloquially about, cultural phenomena—getting at the larger trends, truths,…
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…toast and turkey bacon, on plates and in bowls that are thick and cream-colored, like old-fashioned crockery. Her parents are quiet people, not festive, with impeccable taste. They appreciate things…
…letters to forty-eight states offering to purchase their cash-strapped correctional facilities. Taking the CCA up on such an offer might mean savings for the states and counties in question; what…
…Tuesday through Saturday eleven to five, take a dinner break and go back with Jake at six-thirty. We stay ’til nine-thirty on school nights, eleven on the weekends. Lee waves…
Image taken from Flickr user Marina Caprara A metallic silver and blue 280zx slinked over the road. Even at a crawl the car looked fast, as if any second it…
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