The Jungle Gym

The neighbors said the jungle gym was great for our block. I told them it was just the beginning and showed them the picture of my wife’s childhood yard. I told them I would duplicate the Tennessee homestead down to the smallest detail. Honeysuckles would cover the Los Angeles city fire hydrant, and the chicken …

Massive Wildfires Almost Destroyed This Small Town. Now Music Brings The Community Together.

On Dec. 4, 2017, Jamie Bennett was sitting at home in his living room recovering from the flu. It was a blustery Monday night in the picturesque valley of Ojai, California — some 20 miles east of the coastal town of Ventura — and the winds were rattling the windows of his home. Around 8 p.m., …

The political representation of the European people

Image of European Parliament, June 2018. Global Media Group/Press Association. All rights reserved. IM/HD: We are today witnessing the advance of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme-right groups in every successive European election. They have even managed to enter government, for instance, in Italy. What’s going on?   Etienne Balibar (EB): This trend has been ongoing for …

“The Girl with Henna Hair” by Rebecca Hooper Eastman

Suffragette Rebecca Eastman wrote articles, fiction, and drama for a host of publications at the turn of the century. Her work was largely forgotten, save her novel The Big Little Person, which became a silent film in 1919. Eastman’s story “The Girl with Henna Hair” appeared in the Post in 1919, and its witty treatment …

Meet The Woman Behind A Groundbreaking Pakistani Girls Soccer League

Behind concrete walls that span several feet high in the bustling streets of Karachi, Pakistan, Mashal Hussain stands on the side of the soccer field, looking on at the group of girls playing. The girls are laughing and smiling, dripping in sweat from running around in the hot and humid conditions. It’s clear Hussain is …

Brazil against its future

Click:vanilla prepaid card balance “Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.” – Jorge Luis Borges  Brazil´s presidential elections next month will be one of the biggest tests the country´s democracy has ever faced. Aside from choosing the country´s president, the members of the lower …

Donald Trump Cancels His June Summit With Kim Jong Un 

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump positioned himself as an outsider who’d shake up Washington. He claimed that only he could fix long-standing problems that politicians had ignored. One of those issues was the U.S.’s intractable relationship with North Korea. Trump saw it as a battle between two men instead of two countries’ geopolitical differences. …