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Gilding The Wall
January 29, 2019
On a Tuesday earlier this month, I walked out of jail and drove until my car ran out of gas and died a mile from my house in a crowded Boston intersection. This happened not for lack of access to fuel or money to buy it with—or even because I had failed to notice that the gas ...

The France of No Tomorrow
July 11, 2018
In recent years a new kind of centrist politics has been taking shape in France. To confront the twin perils of economic and cultural nationalism, strategists and think tank wonks dreamed up a plan to keep the country focused on the process of globalization and EU integration, ...

Brown Existence Anxiety
June 26, 2018
It never leaves me, this paranoia borne of being brown and female, immigrant and Muslim in the age of Trump. It is with me while I am waiting to have my blood drawn at a clinic and the two plump white grandmothers switch from talking about their grandchildren to how they like ...

Dendrophile Diplomacy
May 18, 2018
Like someone with a cat allergy as incurable as their love of cats, the Queen brings my dad out in a rash. So overwhelmed with joy is he when he sees his monarch that he promptly bursts into tears. Official birthdays, Queen’s speeches, London Fashion Week—he’s hysterical. ...