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My last surviving uncle just died, he was almost 90 but the trajectory of his life was not 9 decades but how he began and where he ended up. He was born in a small North African fishing town, to a father overwhelmed by the forces of life, prejudice and colonialism and a mother who…

Every morning in Spina, a small village in Afghanistan, about 50 girls sneak through a square opening in a mud-baked wall. In defiance of a Taliban edict, they are going to school. They sit on the floor where the chalkboard is, about half of them have old books sent from Kabul. At first there were…

According to a New Yorker Article, there are 300 million privately owned firearms in the United States. That includes, 106 million handguns, 105 million rifles and 83 million shotguns. Although it’s less than the number of cars or the number of phones, it roughly works out to one per person. While only tragedies such as…