Corruption
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A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis November 22, 2024
In 2011, an anti-corruption activist began a hunger strike in Delhi, inspiring protests all over the country to pressure the central government into accountability. The following year, a twenty-three-year-old woman was raped and murdered by several m...
Is Chicago About to Hit Rock Bottom? November 22, 2024
The Chicago press corps have gathered around a lectern. The city is in crisis. Schools are closed. Garbage is piling up. Government workers are striking. Businesses are fleeing. As cameras flash, the mayor of Chicago, flanked by the governor, makes a...
Everyone Still Wants to Believe in Mike Tyson November 18, 2024
Mike Tyson stands alone in an empty ring, throwing punches at ghosts. The crowd screams his name, but he doesn't hear them anymore. At fifty-eight, his muscles still ripple beneath flabby, weathered skin, but the speed and movement that actually made...
The History of Wokeness November 14, 2024
Over the summer, I drove down to one of the numerous beach towns in Ocean County, New Jersey with two friends: one is a cop, the other a special ed teacher and athletic coach; both are black Americans in their late 20s. Over a dinner of chicken franc...
