The summer of 1969 is the family’s first back in the Chicago suburbs. To his dismay, the young man’s family has left lively and liberal Ann Arbor to return to the stodgy conservatism of Chicago’s western suburbs. He is 16 years old and entering his junior year of high school. He walks home from school
Author: Mark T. Harris
In this era of fire and fury, when a boorish racist president can declare himself a stable genius in response to a journalist’s exposé of life inside the White House, American political culture is on display in all its hideous and worsening vulgarity. Indeed, the publication of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump
The movement for a single-payer health care system in the United States represents a vision of basic access to health care for everyone. As popularly expressed, the demand for “Improved Medicare for All” rightly embraces the idea that health care should be every human being’s right, not a privilege dependent on a person’s income, wealth,
When our family moves to Illinois in the early 1960s, we leave behind our California dreams for a new life in the Midwest. I am eight years old and the trip east feels like a journey out of time, to a place too far away for my young mind to quite comprehend. I do not
Remembering Sadako Sasaki and All Victims of Nuclear War When the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, two-year-old Sadako Sasaki was at home with her family. Unlike tens of thousands of others, she was fortunate enough to survive the immediate blast of the 15-kiloton Uranium-235 bomb. But the young, athletic girl
