I am surrounded by writers. Every morning when I wake up, one of the first things I do is scan my RSS reader for something to bring meaning to my day. I scan the loads of Moroccan blogs I subscribe to, I scan those of my Global Voices friends and colleagues, I read up on […]
The hardest part of growing up is leaving friends behind, all over the world. Such is the burden of my generation: it seems everyone I know has at one time left a love halfway around the world, or has made friends in many places then realized those friends would never meet. Or, like me, realized […]
A day after I write this, an 88-year-old white supremacist walks into the Holocaust museum and shoots a security guard. Racism comes from all sides. I believe strongly in unlimited free speech. Yet one glance at the shooter’s Web site gives me at least some insight into why countries like Germany and Austria have banned […]