I Get the Most Tacky, Hideous Magnets That You Can Possibly Find
Courtesy of Abbie VanSicklee.
February 24, 2021
Abbie VanSickle covers criminal justice in California for The Marshall Project and lectures at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining a Zócalo/California Wellness Foundation event, “Has California Ended Mass Incarceration?,” she joined the virtual green room to chat about growing up in the corn fields of Illinois, quarantine cabin fever, and how she prepares for tough interviews.
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I actually did not have any breakfast. I was trying to get my kids out the door and just did not have a chance. I have a 1-year-old and a 5-year-old. Last week was my first week of full childcare since March 13th, I think. It was rough.
Is privacy really worth saving?
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Is privacy overrated?
The question might seem daft, given how gravely privacy is endangered in our digital age. Spies in government and the private sector routinely devour data for insights into our behavior, insights that may be used to manipulate our behavior. And privacy’s advocates contend that freedom and democracy are unthinkable without it. As philosopher Michael Lynch puts it, privacy affords us control over our thoughts and feelings, which is a “necessary condition for being in a position to make autonomous decisions, for our ability to determine who and what we are as persons.”
The Black Freedom Seekers Who ‘Managed to Shape Their Own Destinies’
The Many and Varied Attempts by African Americans to Escape Bondage in the Lower Mississippi Valley Tell a Larger Narrative
Many escapees fought back when slave-catchers pursued them. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. by S. Charles Bolton |
January 27, 2021
The Lower Mississippi Valley begins at Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio River flows into the Mississippi, and extends south to the Head of Passes 100 miles below New Orleans, where the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, white Americans flocked into the valley, the most ambitious settling in the delta region between Vicksburg and Memphis. There, climate and soil combined to create one of the best places in the world to grow cotton.
Returning Jews and Local Communities Worked Together to Lead Germany Toward Historical Reckoning
Hugo Spiegel and then-mayor Dr. Hans Kluck unveiling the memorial stone in 1970. An English translation of the inscription (which comes from Lamentations 1:16), reads, in part:
Over these things I weep/ My eyes run with water/ Because Menachem is far from me.: Courtesy of the town of Warendorf. by Helmut Walser Smith |
January 11, 2021
In the early postwar years in the German town of Warendorf, no one contributed as much to facing the difficult past as Hugo Spiegel. He was not a learned man. He was Jewish, however. And his story tells us something important about how German communities confronted their history.
A Debauched Holiday Became a Family Affair One Where Adults and Children Alike Could Celebrate Enchantment
There is an almost magical connection between children and Christmas but it hasn t always been that way. Courtesy of Public Domain. by Maria Sachiko Cecire |
December 23, 2020
There’s a special, even magical connection between children and the “most wonderful time of the year.” Their excitement, their belief, the joy they bring others have all become wrapped up in the Christmas spirit. Take the lyrics of classic songs like “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “White Christmas,” or even the aptly titled “Christmas Is for Children” by country music legend Glen Campbell these are just a few of the many pop culture offerings that cement the relationship between kids and Christmas. But it hasn’t always been this way, even though the holiday celebrates the Christ child’s birth. How kids got to the heart of Christmas has a lot to