We have a new word for that feeling when travel makes everything new

On a double-decker bus from Dublin airport to Drumcondra early one June morning, a young lad stretched out on the back seat and started to rap. What he lacked in talent he made up for in gusto. I was with a dozen of my students who were travelling...
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The German schoolboy jailed for writing to the BBC

How the East German secret police caught a young man who wrote letters to the BBC during the Cold War.
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A Recognition That We’re All Getting Screwed

Winning the [U.S.] white working class for criminal justice reform. By Vanessa Baker.
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The last Nazi hunters

Since 1958, a small department of Germany’s government has sought to bring members of the Third Reich to trial. A handful of prosecutors are still tracking down Nazis, but the world’s biggest cold-case investigation will soon be shut down.
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The day that destroyed the [U.S.] working class and sowed the seeds of Trump

Forty years ago, on Sept. 19, thousands of men walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River before the early shift... By Salena Zito.
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Brexit’s Irish Question

People, money, Ireland. By Fintan O’Toole.
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A Very Scary Fish Story

The vanishing of an iconic river creature in Alabama poses terrifying questions about the water we swim in and fish in and drink. (Jul 24, 2017)
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