Author: Michelle Korhonen
In his new book, We Wait for a Miracle, Zaman tells how about the struggle for health care by forcibly displaced people — refugees, the internally displaced, the stateless.(Image credit: Jackie Ricciardi/Boston University)
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they need to stop making excuses, look in the mirror, and confront head-on the gap between who they are and who they want to be. A few months ago, that happened to me. I could no longer put off the full and joyous life I felt I deserved. I decided it was finally time to learn to salsa.I’m a very good dancer, generally speaking. Get me in a club, and I’ll be in the center of your dance circle. Invite me to your wedding, and guests will think I’m a professional party…
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.In an era when many of the civil-rights policies enacted in the 1960s face serious threats, I expect there will be a renewed urgency and vigor to the annual goings-on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Below are some suggestions for how to use your downtime today.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:Today marks the 39th year that Martin Luther King Jr. Day…
When, last week, a panel called a door plug blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane in mid-flight, leaving a gaping hole in the plane’s fuselage, air travelers everywhere no doubt felt a shudder of horror—even though the aircraft was able to turn around and land safely. But in a sense, the startling thing was how unstartling the news was. In the six years since the Max—an updated version of the long-running 737, Boeing’s most popular plane—made its debut, the aircraft has been plagued by quality problems. The most dramatic of these resulted in two catastrophic crashes, in 2018…
Maribel Martinez and her son, Ivan Monreal-Martinez, 9, at the Boulder Public Library on the night of the December coupon distribution for the Fruit & Veg program. Rachel Woolf for NPR hide caption toggle caption Rachel Woolf for NPR Maribel Martinez and her son, Ivan Monreal-Martinez, 9, at the Boulder Public Library on the night of the December coupon distribution for the Fruit & Veg program. Rachel Woolf for NPR It’s a chilly, winter evening outside the Boulder Public library, with the sun low in the sky. Inside, tucked behind a spiral staircase, a small crowd begins to file into…
It can be tough to face our own mortality. Keeping diaries, posting to social media, and taking photos are all tools that can help to minimize the discomfort that comes with realizing we have limited time on Earth. But how exactly does documenting our lives impact how we live and remember them?In this episode, diarist and author Sarah Manguso reflects on the benefits and limitations of keeping track of time, and Charan Ranganath, a professor of psychology and researcher at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, discusses what research reveals about how memories work and how we can better keep…
As the World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos, the charity Oxfam has issued its annual report on wealth, poverty and inequality. It makes some bold assertions. But there are skeptics.(Image credit: Markus Schreiber/AP)
One of Aaron Rodgers’s biggest strengths as a Hall of Fame–caliber player is his awareness. At his best, the New York Jets quarterback can anticipate the movements of aggressive defenders and use his legs to create breathtaking plays down the field.If only Rodgers possessed such sharp awareness away from the football field, where he seems to have a knack for creating unnecessary drama and exposing himself as a fake intellectual who can’t seem to stop showcasing his rampant narcissism. He isn’t in danger of jeopardizing his inevitable entrance into the Hall of Fame, but the more he digs into these…
Hamas’s attack on October 7 had the effect of stopping time. Many Israelis and concerned Jews I’ve spoken with describe a day that has not yet ended for them—a continuous nightmare from which they can’t wake, a reality compounded by the knowledge that so many of the kidnapped are still in captivity. The fiercist critics of Israel’s actions over the past three months don’t want to hear, let alone acknowledge, these feelings, because the weeks of ongoing death and destruction in Gaza have erased for them the hours of rampant torture and rape and murder that preeceded them. Understandable though…
tk Nikhil Chaudhary, Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images, AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nikhil Chaudhary, Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images, AFP via Getty Images tk Nikhil Chaudhary, Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images, AFP via Getty Images In May 2023, NPR launched The NPR Weekly News Quiz to see if you are paying attention to … well, everything and anything. Like … A woman has filed a lawsuit against Hershey because … (we’ll give you this one: her peanut butter pumpkins lacked the cute face promised on the package!) Here at the global health and development team, we…