Articles

Letter from Berlin: Read the News Today, Oh Boy

By Stan Persky | December 28, 2016

Berlin terrorist attack. The here and there of it.

Numbers and Narratives: Notes on the Trumpiad

By Stan Persky | November 25, 2016

If one picture is worth a thousand words, is one narrative worth a thousand numbers? The 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Lit. Well, why not?

By Sidney Australia | October 14, 2016

Snobbishly enraged by Nobel for Dylan? “Ah, but I was so much older then / I’m younger than that now.”

The Camel and I

By Sidney Australia | August 23, 2016

The camels are coming!

Toronto Pride Meets Black Lives Matter

By Stan Persky | July 12, 2016

We Canadians can probably live with it. But, can Facebook users?

Nanaimo Pride: The Resistance of Memory

By Daniel Gawthrop | July 7, 2016

Nanaimo, B.C. held its first Pride Parade. But when?

Orlando: Notes on a Massacre

By Stan Persky | July 6, 2016

Reading Orlando. Grieving Orlando.

Mein Trumpf, Brexit, and Europe’s Rising Right: Letter from Berlin

By Stan Persky | June 28, 2016

Austrian elections, British referenda, and The Donald — we’re contemplating almost everything.

Insiders, Outsiders

By Sidney Australia | April 24, 2016

How to keep your head (and mind) when most of the “narrative” about the 2016 U.S. presidential election is b.s.

Letter from Berlin: The Refugee Referendum

By Stan Persky | March 18, 2016

In Germany, voters go to the polls to assess Angela Merkel’s refugee policy.