September 2013

Alganesh Embaye
September 25, 2013
The city started changing. Sidewalks turned into trenches where soldiers crawled in and out like ants. Every morning, deep throated...
Kamakshi Ayyar
September 18, 2013
The past year has been a difficult one for Mali. A military coup in March 2012 to remove President Amadou Toumani Touré led to nationwide...
Sumana Roy
September 16, 2013
Drowning: 16 December, 1971 ‘Yahya Khan drowned the two-nation theory.’ Tikka Khan (1) , we only went looking into the water to stare at...
Grace Halden
September 13, 2013
Currently, the news is saturated with reports of mounting death tolls as clashes between protestors and the military reach new heights in...
John F. McCreary
September 11, 2013
The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a possible U.S...
Mark Sauter
September 10, 2013
When 1st Lt. Gilbert Lamour Ashley – nicknamed “Coogs” after movie star Jackie Coogan – disappeared in January 1953 with more than a dozen...
Lorene Delany-Ullman
September 5, 2013
Editor's Preface For his twelfth birthday, our mother decked my brother’s cake with a squad of Marines. We sang, he blew out the candles,...
Jasbir K. Puar
September 3, 2013
Few cosmopolitan amblers will deny the desire to magically pass through one of the innumerable doorways that interrupt the smooth facade of...