After The Daily Northwestern apologized for actions by its student journalists during a recent campus visit by former attorney general Jeff Sessions, the professional journalists began to pile on.
Robert Feder, known for his coverage of the Chicago media scene, described the Daily’s editorial as “bizzare” and “embarrassing.” Glenn Kessler, the fact checker for The Washington Post (my current employer), said it was a travesty and embarrassment.…
There are no guides to identity formation in the midst of crisis. No instructions, no textbooks, and no courses on how to understand your self and your relationship with the world and the various bits therein as things look like they’re falling apart.…
It started when I stepped off the bus.
The overwhelming sensation
of pain, emptiness, and hesitation
of something lost and something hidden.
What is this?
I said
to myself, for there was nobody
or head there but the air.
I looked around
and the bus was leaving
and I thought to chase after it
but I knew
I knew
that what I was looking for wasn’t there.…
In continuing to permit Fox News to sponsor the 2019 Excellence in Journalism awards, the Board of Directors of the Society of Professional Journalists bring shame and disappointment to professional journalists nationwide.
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After a few weeks in the scooter-littered District of Columbia, I have a few more nuanced thoughts on e-scooters and how they fit into a US city.
My first experience on an electric scooter was, in a nutshell, quite scary. I didn’t have a helmet on, I wasn’t wearing any protective gear, and I happened to be going down a hill.…
When Chu Qiu died in 2016, she had only been on Northwestern’s campus for a few weeks. She was struck and run over by a cement truck when on her bicycle, turning onto Sheridan Road, which runs through Northwestern’s campus but is owned and administered by the City of Evanston.…
Washington, D.C. is beautiful.
It’s strange to be in back in a city after being absent for a few months. Everything is familiar, but in a slightly disjunctive way. Last time, I was speeding past the empty gardens along the Red Line during the winter, but in May, the gardens are lush, flowering, and full of bushes and branches that obscure my view of D.C.’s street paintings and more.…
I’d like to briefly appreciate how successfully Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has managed to go by her initials, AOC.
It wasn’t that long ago — just the beginning of the year, in fact — that the Congresswoman changed her Twitter handle.…
hello? are you there?
hey! i’m here! should we talk here?
yeah, this is fine.
by the way, could you share that file with me?
sure, here you go.
oh, here’s another bit.
and another bit.
ok, this is the last one.…
I just discovered my WhatsApp chat archive. Since Northwestern, I’ve not had a reason to use it.
Opening it and reading the messages was like a blast from the past. Everything had been carefully preserved by the chat app now owned by Facebook.…
An update
Further news updates since the publication of this post have indicated that the story was fabricated. To abuse our sympathy, loyalty and kindness for personal gain is a grave insult to the many people who work hard to protect and stand up for people like myself, who are at risk of targeted persecution, mistreatment and violence.
There are some things in life that are absolute.
Death, for example
death and taxes
and the speed of light, I guess.
but some things are much more relative
like space
and time
and whether it’s true that you find me cute, funny and attractive, all at the same time.…
this magic potion keeps me alive.
i remember the first time that i drank it.
drink this, he said. you’ll feel better.
i should have stopped
— I knew the risks, the pain, the effort —
i knew that it was going to hurt.…
have you developed any new symptoms
she asks with a gentle smile.
i smile back
just a little.
I’ve been feeling a lot better
i say; which may be
true or it may be a lie
what do i know?
The truth is
it has been so long
since i have felt good
or bad
or even just better
that i don’t even know what that means
anymore.…
