I escaped to America after my fiancé, Farhid, died. He was an officer in the Afghan National Army in Bagarm when he w…
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New Fiction by Jesse Rowell: “Second Skin”
Alpert Nelsen had lost a toe. He just didn’t know it yet. Not a big toe. One of the smaller ones. It got infected whe…
Are We Still Charlie Hebdo?: The Growing Dissonance between Extremism and Free Speech
I started preparing this essay a month or two ago to collect my thoughts about the after effects of the Charlie Hebdo…