• The House as Metaphor

      Elina Ansary Last fall, shortly after I started my Master’s degree in visual art at Cornell University, the bloody, genocidal chaos erupted in Gaza. College campuses across the US became the battleground for a ferocious debate. It was a discomfiting time to be a Jewish Muslim Afghan American in…

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    • One Day at Pelton Dam

      Tamim Ansary One day in the summer of 1973, I found myself wondering how my experience of life would have been different if I had been born 40,000 years earlier. It wasn’t the first time such a question had popped into my head and it wouldn’t be the last;…

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    • That November Election

      Tamim Ansary For five months now we’ve all been listening to chatter about the November election. Why did it come out the way it did? Why did Trump win? Why did the Democrats lose?  How could this possibly have happened? David Brooks has a theory. Fareed Zakaria has a…

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