InSight Crime’s 2018 Homicide Round-Up
Map of 2018 homicide rates in Latin America and the Caribbean. Source: InSight Crime. All rights reserved. With a worsening crisis in Venezuela, dark days in Nicaragua, an ever more…
After Everything
“No! Jackie, no! Please no,” he screamed. Each night, I woke up convinced I was on the brink of death. But then my eyes would adjust to the darkness of…
Here are all the ways that being a woman has improved in 2018.
It might feel like the world is on fire, both literally and figuratively. Sexism runs rampant on an institutional level. But if you look closely, cracks are showing, and those…
Dive In! America’s Best Shipwrecks
A Web exclusive from The Saturday Evening Post‘s article “Deep Secrets,” Mar/Apr 2011. Click here to subscribe. North Americans have a rich bounty of shipwrecks along the reefs and shoals…
The Great Return March and the women of Gaza
Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border. Picture by NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved. “I am here because I heard my town call me, and ask me to maintain my…
Thanksgiving … 1950
Hard, hard it is, this anxious autumn, To lift the heavy mind from its dark forebodings; To sit at the bright feast, and with ruddy cheer Give thanks for the…
Post Travels: Exploring California’s Striking Big Sur
It’s the type of drive road trips are made for. Along California’s central coast, Highway 1 twists and turns its way through Big Sur, awarding those behind the wheel with…
12 non-threatening leadership strategies for women.
Note: This an excerpt is from Sarah Cooper’s latest book, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings. In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they’re…
The first all-female spacewalk is happening, because even space has a gender gap that needs to be closed.
Even space has a gender gap. Nearly 500 people have been to space, only 11% of which are women. Only 34% of NASA’s astronauts are women, and Sally Ride became…
Zionism: the history of a contested word
Nathan Birbaum,(1864 - 1937) Austrian writer, Jewish thinker and nationalist. Wikicommons/ Zionist Archive. Some rights reserved.‘Objectivity has ceased to be a goal not only of popular writing on the subject…
Branches
We climb the old maple tree and sit, legs swinging, as our parents push cautious hands together and file inside, their faces flushed with the guilt of secretly saying things…
A Different Hawaii
I didn’t want to go to Hawaii the first time; I got coerced. Why go where everybody else goes? Why go to a cliché of ukuleles and leis? And then,…