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Resettled in Virginia, Afghan journalists struggle with underemployment

NAZIR AFZALI SITS IN A PUBLIC LIBRARY in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. He’s wearing a dark winter jacket and a day’s worth of stubble on his face. Afzali plugs a tiny thumb drive into the ... read more

Hawaii Federal judge extends order blocking Trump's travel ban because it 'discriminates against Muslims and hurts the state's tourist economy'

Watson noted that the government said 20 refugees were resettled in Hawaii since 2010. 'Is this a mathematical exercise that 20 isn't enough?... What do I make of that?' the judge asked Readler. The ... read more

Maine and the Democrats’ gay-marriage problem

Even Barack Obama (the uniter!) shuns the topic. Though he stumped in New Jersey and Virginia, he left the gay marriage supporters in Maine out in the cold. The only message Maine Street gets from ... read more

Turning Back the Tax Revolt

Isn’t it nice to get some good news? Finally, electoral victories are paving the way for real progressive success. Even better, ballot measure victories have even provided the beginnings of a ... read more

A Somali journalist launches new effort to cover Minnesota’s immigrants

Without enough reporters who are sufficiently immersed in and trusted by the diverse cultures they cover, Minnesota news outlets may struggle to convey complete stories. For immigrants, this often ... read more

Babies of asylum seekers have stirred our conscience

These findings may provide a clue to why the Government is trying so hard to keep journalists away from these centres, recognising that in this case ignorance leads to acquiescence. But more ... read more

Online tales of despair from Gaza

RAFAH BORDER CROSSING, Egypt (CNN) - It's golden hour - those last few moments of warm sunlight before dusk . Two pairs of Israeli F-16 fighters are wheeling overhead on repeated bombing runs over ... read more

War veteran Matt Zeller finds 'murderer' note on his windshield in NY

to get resettled here.' Zeller is co-founder of 'No One Left Behind,' an organization helping Iraqi and Afghan war interpreters to get settled in the U.S. The non-profit organization assists those ... read more

Man-Eaters and Murderers: Vile Women in Fiction

In her essay In Praise of Unlikeable Characters, fellow staff writer Emily St. John Mandel writes about protagonists who behave badly, like the eponymous Marie in Marcy Dermansky’s frisky little novel ... read more

Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart

Then it all went horribly wrong. By the summer of 2012, two of the “freed” nations — Libya and Yemen — were sliding into anarchy and factionalism, while the struggle against the Bashar al-Assad ... read more

Are we really a nation of bludgers?

Our GDP growth figures look healthy, but buried among the data is our abysmal productivity. You can expect this to feature heavily in the upcoming election campaign, writes Ian Verrender. ... read more