When the Democratic Party’s Presidential Nominee Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate, she ticked three key demographic boxes—a woman, with Black and Asian parentage. In her DNC acceptance speech when she spoke of her Tamil mother and...
In my other life, in the other doomed industry I have chosen to dedicate my once promising talents to, I am currently in the process of preparing classes for the university courses I adjunct on. Naturally, this year is ‘going to be a bit different’....
Founded in 2014, Humans of Bombay (HOB) - the Indian equivalent of Brandon Stanton’s wildly popular photoblog Humans of New York – has evolved into a major storytelling platform. What started as an attempt to chronicle the sufferings endured by...
In the 1991 gubernatorial election, a young investment advisor named Kirby Newburger came up with a slogan that was an unlikely hit. The race was between Edwin Edwards, then a two-time Democratic Representative from Louisiana’s 7th Congressional...
Earlier this week, a twitter account ostensibly belonging to a British writer named R.S. Archer, the author of the ‘David Saunders’ series of books, married to a French woman and living in the Dordogne, began posting about a British couple he knows...
You might think that a pandemic would be enough to scare vaccine skeptics into changing their minds, but it seems the opposite is true. A dangerous combination of vaccine disinformation and a precipitous drop in vaccinations during the pandemic...
On March 18th, just before lockdown was announced in the UK, I received a long (600 words or so) text from a family member. I have no idea where they had got it from, and I suspect they hadn’t read it; they certainly hadn’t read it carefully.
In late 1969, in a church hall in Oakland California, a group of school children sat down to a free breakfast. They ate eggs, meat, cereal, and fresh oranges, and drank chocolate milk.
The US is in meltdown – the world’s richest and most powerful nation could well be experiencing a crisis of legitimacy analogous to the one which precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90s.