Kobe, A Young Visayan Man
It was a Saturday evening in Davao, at the southern tip of the Philippines, one week after a massive rally for Rodrigo Duterte, the nation’s new president, in a local park. It was the...
-
-
Blue Mood: Saint Louis
When a few minutes before 3:00pm, our driver, Joseph, who had said little since we left Dakar, drove us into Saint Louis on the border with Mauritania, I felt my anxiety rise. The Fulani...
-
A Death in Davao
The house in Royal Valley was the same. With a doorway missing its door and a window frame without any glass panes, the tiny house offered little separation between an inside and an outside...
-
In Plain Sight: Dakar
I had been on longer flights. But this one was particularly uncomfortable. Lomax, my younger brother, didn’t fare much better on the plane, but he could brush it off faster because he liked to...
-
Love Lost: Moscow
The moment I took the final step up the wide staircase and reached the third floor of the MS Sergei Yesenin, I stopped and looked out the window of the door leading to the...
-
Underground
That night on the boat I finished reading the yellowed pages of Notes from the Underground. I looked over the railing of the ship’s upper deck into the Moscow River, feeling the warm June...
-
A Dream Come True
Johanna had been waiting for this moment a long time. A day before, the 40-year-old woman from Holland had talked about her love of Russian literature. Earlier that day, she had mentioned she studied...
-
Looking for Igor in Moscow
It was somewhere on a bridge over a canal in the middle of Moscow. We realized Igor wasn’t there. Standing on the steel and concrete path above the water, the seven of us looked...
-
The Government Must Permit New Research
Today, in the United States, the federal government allows one facility, at the University of Mississippi, to grow and test marijuana for the purpose of medical research. Based in Oxford, in the northern part...
-
Safety First: New Health Regulations Badly Needed
As demand grows fast for products containing CBD, safety concerns, too, are rising quickly. Today shoppers can find cannabidiol, or CBD, one of a class of compounds known as cannabinoids with promising medicinal applications,...
Kobe, A Young Visayan Man
It was a Saturday evening in Davao, at the southern tip of the Philippines, one week after a massive rally for Rodrigo Duterte, the nation’s new president, in a local park. It was the...
Blue Mood: Saint Louis
When a few minutes before 3:00pm, our driver, Joseph, who had said little since we left Dakar, drove us into Saint Louis on the border with Mauritania, I felt my anxiety rise. The Fulani...
A Death in Davao
The house in Royal Valley was the same. With a doorway missing its door and a window frame without any glass panes, the tiny house offered little separation between an inside and an outside...
In Plain Sight: Dakar
I had been on longer flights. But this one was particularly uncomfortable. Lomax, my younger brother, didn’t fare much better on the plane, but he could brush it off faster because he liked to...
Love Lost: Moscow
The moment I took the final step up the wide staircase and reached the third floor of the MS Sergei Yesenin, I stopped and looked out the window of the door leading to the...
Underground
That night on the boat I finished reading the yellowed pages of Notes from the Underground. I looked over the railing of the ship’s upper deck into the Moscow River, feeling the warm June...
A Dream Come True
Johanna had been waiting for this moment a long time. A day before, the 40-year-old woman from Holland had talked about her love of Russian literature. Earlier that day, she had mentioned she studied...
Looking for Igor in Moscow
It was somewhere on a bridge over a canal in the middle of Moscow. We realized Igor wasn’t there. Standing on the steel and concrete path above the water, the seven of us looked...
The Government Must Permit New Research
Today, in the United States, the federal government allows one facility, at the University of Mississippi, to grow and test marijuana for the purpose of medical research. Based in Oxford, in the northern part...
Safety First: New Health Regulations Badly Needed
As demand grows fast for products containing CBD, safety concerns, too, are rising quickly. Today shoppers can find cannabidiol, or CBD, one of a class of compounds known as cannabinoids with promising medicinal applications,...