David “Slag” Miller had no idea what his friend was talking about. The two were sitting on a patch of grass behind old Sara Parker’s house, a tall row of hedges obscuring the train tracks of Lowburg Station in front of them. “You want me to become a mouse?” Slag asked. Chapleton Ratcliffe took another…
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What happened to Uruguay and its Pink Tide?
Left-wing ex-president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica. Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved. This article is part of the series "Persistent inequality: disputing the legacy of the pink tide in Latin America" produced in alliance with the Institute of Latin American Studies and at the Instituite of Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin. There are three sources…
How This Special Olympics Athlete Races Past Expectations
Andy Bryant was only supposed to run for 90 minutes. After all, he was in Albuquerque, running at elevation alongside some of the top middle distance runners in the country. Plus, it was snowing and cold. But when the group reached the turnaround point, he said he wanted to keep going. The 36-year-old from Woodinville,…
Colombian resistance against the Odebrecht-nurtured mafia
Ruta del Sol highway in Colombia / Odebrecht offices Invisibility serves the abuse of power only too well in the continued struggle of ordinary Colombians. Thus, understanding the context of recent astounding events in this nation, post peace-accords, is essential, because it is illustrative of the difficult path to be traversed towards real peace and…
The Eyes of Thomas Andrews
O’Henry walked across the room, took one look at him, and yawned. That was enough for John Lyon. God, he said to himself, even the cat thinks I’m boring. He could no longer avoid it. Three months into retirement, and his life had become a tedious routine. It was the same thing day after day,…
The Iran that is accepted in Syria
Picture by Depo Photos/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved. Like every football championship around the world in which contenders compete for a title, many regional and international powers have entered the “Syrian playground” and the title in this case is called “leverage in Syria”. the United States and the Russian Federation have been the main players,…
Woman goes viral after sharing delivery guy's insanely creepy texts and company's terrible response.
Goodness gracious, why don’t some people understand that when you order takeout through a delivery service, you just want the food and not unwanted advances that make you feel violated and unsafe? Michelle Midwinter recently ordered food from Just Eat, a popular food delivery service abroad, and was harassed by a super creepy delivery guy. She…
Ice Out
From the three-second mark on the tape cassette: “For the record, my name is Brook Tyler, and I’m a detective sergeant with the New Hampshire State Police Major Crimes Unit. Today’s date is Monday, March 27, and the time is 9:05 a.m. With me in this meeting room at the State Police offices on Hazen…
Post Travels: Down the Shore — The Beautiful Beaches of New Jersey
Come summer, visitors flock to the Jersey Shore’s many boardwalks to eat salt water taffy, play mini-golf and take a whirl on beachside amusement rides. But the stretch of coastline known as Long Beach Island is bit different than sandy neighbors. Affectionately known as LBI to regulars, summer days here are spent on the beach,…
What’s in a name: the Macedonian question and the social question
Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev in signing ceremony ending dispute over the use of the name Macedonia, June 17, 2018. Dimitris Tosidis/Press Association. All rights reserved. The accord crafted between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) resolving the name dispute has an energising social potential. It potentially undermines nationalisms in the Southern…