The Guilt of Tangential Crimes
Raised after the fall of the Berlin Wall and USSR collapse, my relationship to a divided Germany, and of the war that led to it, was a tangential one.
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ISSUE 3, MAGAZINE, NONFICTION
Bringing the Country Together
What does the United States as a unified country even look like? Very different, clearly, to different groups. And the alt-right sure isn’t helping.
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Black Lives Matter: The Fight for Justice in America
The presence of Black Lives Matter has never been felt more strongly in Minnesota than after the deaths of Marcus Golden and Philando Castile.
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You’re An @sshole: Being “Right” in the Digital Age
With the Digital Age came computers. With computers came the internet. With internet came your post, their post, funny post, mean post, political post…
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Real Websites, Fake News
Fake news has existed from the earliest days of journalism, long before Bat Boy became Hillary Clinton’s alien baby. In 1835, Richard A. Locke published a series of six fake articles about the discovery of life on the moon, now known as the Great Moon Hoax, in The Sun newspaper. Sales of The Sun went through the roof.
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A Festering Past
Germany has addressed its past in ways most countries, especially the United States, have not: A sort of national psychoanalysis to keep something like the Third Reich from ever happening again.
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Now India (7 Minutes to Sunrise)
The first sounds of the morning are of tuk-tuk and taxi engines as they come to life, their honking horns alongside the footsteps of the city’s informal working class taking to the streets. And, even earlier than that, the song and chant of Hindu morning prayer, and the feral dogs that slink to the shadows to sleep, no longer dominant as the sun begins its climb from behind Agra, India’s low hills.
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Be Responsible with the Internet
Social media is the most effective way to share, learn, and discuss. In the wake of tragedies at home and abroad, we must be careful how we do that.