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An International Student on Lockdown During the Shooting in Lewiston, Maine
“When I saw how my American peers reacted and how I reacted, the contrast just blew my mind,” Alan Wang, a senior at Bates College, said.
A Father Reckons with the Hostage-Taking of His Family in Southern Israel
As Hamas militants launched a wave of assaults on Israeli towns and communities, Yoni Asher learned that his wife and two young daughters had been taken captive.
An Eyewitness to Jordan Neely’s Death
“It’s shameful,” Johnny Grima, a formerly homeless man, who was aboard the train in which Neely was choked to death, said. “There’s no getting around it.”
“I Owe Turkey, Because I Was a Refugee”: A Young Syrian on the Earthquake’s Devastation
A first-person account from Serbest Salih, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer in a border city.
“Hurricane Maria Never Finished Leaving Us”: The Aftermath of Fiona in a Puerto Rican Town
“You’re seeing the most dramatic display of inequality,” a Puerto Rican teacher and independence activist said, after Hurricane Fiona. “It hurts.”
Trying to Find Places for Asylum Seekers in New York City’s Homeless Shelters
An immigrants’-rights advocate describes receiving busloads of migrants from Texas at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
“The Longest Thirty Seconds of My Absolute Life”: A Survivor’s Account of the Brooklyn Subway Shooting
Kenneth Foote-Smith, recounting the agony, courage, and paralysis on the N train, said, “It just screams negligence.”
How COVID Exploded in Hong Kong
With startling speed, a success story turned tragic. What went wrong?
As War Begins in Kyiv, a Ukrainian Family Hunkers Down
Lena Samoilenko slept through Russia’s first attacks on Ukraine’s capital, and has been fortifying her home since.
A Reproductive-Rights Activist Explains the Realities of Abortion for Latina Women
“When you have to flee a country . . . it’s women who are being raped, sexually harassed, sexually assaulted,” Elizabeth Estrada, of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, said.