How to Say ‘Divorced’ in Spanish
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How to Say ‘Divorced’ in Spanish

April 30, 2013 • Comments
In search of healing, I took a three-month trip to South America after my marriage ended. But the memory of my divorce was never far: in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, Peru and Chile, it seemed that almost everyone I met was recently divorced. And then, I met Hugo.

Story and photos by Alexandra Levine
Features
Haiti, Before the Ground Shook
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Haiti, Before the Ground Shook

March 1, 2010 • Comments
On clichés, coping, and catharsis.

Story and photos by Gergana Koleva
Toasting Poe
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Toasting Poe

February 1, 2010 • Comments
A dreary midnight when a yearly visitor was “nothing more.”

By Cynthia Pelayo
Making History Out of Footnotes
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Making History Out of Footnotes

February 1, 2010 • Comments
A look at one man’s take on the reality of Gaza through his unique brand of comic art.

By Jillian York
Sentenced
News

Sentenced

December 7, 2009 • Comments
Eight days’ hard labor on a medical marijuana farm.

By Buffy Charlet
Spotlighting the Neighborhood
News

Spotlighting the Neighborhood

November 2, 2009 • Comments
On the ground with a New Yorker during the UN General Assembly.

Story and photos by Suzanne Farrell
Sisters of Fate
Reviews

Sisters of Fate

August 5, 2009 • Comments
Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls tells the piercingly painful tale of two sisters’ odyssey from Shanghai to San Francisco.

By Sarah Marian Seltzer
From the Inner City to Indonesia
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From the Inner City to Indonesia

March 2, 2009 • Comments
Teaching has its rewards, challenges everywhere.

Story and photos by Colette S. Coleman
The Indian in the classroom
Commentary

The Indian in the classroom

March 2, 2009 • Comments
Keeping kids politically correct.

Story and photos by Suzanne Farrell
News

Albion, New York

February 3, 2009 • Comments
Portrait of a prison town.

By Andrew Marantz
When Rape Becomes Normal
News

When Rape Becomes Normal

March 2, 2008 • Comments
Despite worldwide news coverage, the brutality against Congolese women has become standard. Rape has proven to be an effective strategy for the armed groups in the country's unending war.

Story and photos by Anna Sussman and Jonathan Jones
Alone in the Forest
Commentary

Alone in the Forest

May 6, 2007 • Comments
Discovering the kindness of strangers in Cuba.

By Lita Wong
One Piece at a Time
Commentary

One Piece at a Time

February 3, 2007 • Comments
Stitching the past together.

By Rachel Van Thyn
The Spice of Life
Commentary

The Spice of Life

November 5, 2006 • Comments
A salt, sugar, and lactose-free tale of two sisters.

By Rachel Van Thyn

Editor's Blog

The Pendulum of Curiosity: Why I Am a Writer

The Pendulum of Curiosity: Why I Am a Writer

May 21, 2013

I recently came to the realization that my life is full of extremes, and those extremes facilitate my work as a writer. This revelation struck while I was sitting in bed on a Saturday night, simultaneously editing an e-learning course on fair housing laws and watching the America’s Cutest Cat countdown on Animal Planet. This brief indulgence in the hilarious and heartwarming antics of curious cats provoked a moment of self-reflection. I was compelled to consider the ways my own curiosity drives me, personally and professionally. Writers are known to be troublemakers, after all — though perhaps this is an unfair casting unless viewed in the right sort of light.

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When Our Information Changes …

When Our Information Changes …

May 20, 2013

It's rare to see a macroeconomics experiment play out in real time in the way we are seeing it right now in Japan and Europe. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has embarked on aggressive measures to stimulate Japan's long-moribund economy since he took office in December, and the result so far has been strong growth — and, perhaps, liftoff after a triple-dip recession. Europe, on the other hand, remains mired in the muck of austerity and economic contraction.

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The Blunter Edge of the Racial Wedge

The Blunter Edge of the Racial Wedge

May 13, 2013

For the sake of this country's multiethnic democracy, I want Republicans to do better among nonwhite voters. A society where ethnicity defines the political parties is doomed to disaster. The political process becomes a zero-sum game where each ethnic group fights for its share of the pie. Any commitment to a broader common good is lost, as is any sense that citizens of different backgrounds can come together and feel a strong patriotic bond.

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A Month Burned from Memory

A Month Burned from Memory

May 7, 2013

What does it feel like to go insane and not know why? In her memoir, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, author Susannah Cahalan describes what it is like in terrifying detail: “My body continued to stiffen as I inhaled repeatedly, with no exhale. Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth through clenched teeth.… This moment, my first serious blackout, marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming weeks, I would never again be the same person. This was the start of the dark period of my illness, as I began an existence in purgatory between the real world and a cloudy, fictitious realm made up of hallucinations and paranoia.”

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Civilization and Its Peacemakers

Civilization and Its Peacemakers

May 6, 2013

After protracted, months-long negotiations, Kosovo and Serbia recently agreed to a compromise on sovereignty and autonomy that would end two decades of conflict. In extinguishing the last embers of war in what was Yugoslavia — the volatile, ethnically divided nation where the assassination of an Austrian archduke launched World War I, and where civil war throughout the nineties led to ethnic cleansing and other atrocities — Europe is nearing the end of its long journey to overcome its tribal enmities and build a cohesive, peaceful civilization.

These hopeful developments overseas have been on my mind recently. This semester, I've been teaching a course on the debate within the West over human nature: What are we? What can we be? Why do we act the way we do?

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