August 2013

Nomvuyo Nolutshungu
August 30, 2013
The truth, so they say, will set you free. For Chelsea Manning the meaning of that phrase is far from literal — the truth concluded last...
John F. McCreary
August 28, 2013
The mainstream media headlines, with slight variations, predict that an attack against Syrian targets by US missiles could occur as early...
Gustavo Germano
August 26, 2013
veruska-6.jpg In early 2000, Gustavo Germano began assembling a photographic series called Absences (Ausencias) , a project envisioned as a...
Bree Zuckerman and Michael Busch
August 23, 2013
AUG 23rd, 2013: Zimbabwe’s nationwide elections passed without bloodshed last month, but they were not free from controversy. On July 29,...
Geoff Wisner
August 22, 2013
B reakfast with Mugabe by Fraser Grace, directed by David Shookhoff, plays from August 7 to October 6 at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box...
Zachariah Mampilly
August 20, 2013
“Gasi haitoki! Gasi haitoki!” (Gas should not come!) Ten adolescent girls dressed in navy blue school uniforms chant in excitable tones as...
Mike Ekunno
August 5, 2013
“It was the first Christmas after the war. The war during which we lived away from home and moved houses three times, whenever ‘the enemy’...
Michael Busch
August 3, 2013
The internet came alive this past week with reaction to word out of Mexico that Miguel Angel “Z-40” Treviño Morales—leader of the...