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The American Dream in Retreat: An Immigration Attorney’s Assessment of a System Under Strain

For decades, the American Dream carried an implicit promise for immigrants: work within the system,…

Sushi,  My Friend — The Black Labrador Who Taught Me More About Emotional Connection Than Anyone Else

“They should watch out for you, o eater of insects. One snap of those jaws…

Complexion Of The Game: Colored Children Of The Colonized World Are The Pride Of World Football

What is the most striking question the FIFA World Cup throws at us today? Not…

The Anatomy of Heroic Defeat: Why Vozinha of Cape Verde is the True Hero of 2026 FIFA World Cup

The story of Josimar José Évora Dias—known to the world simply as Vozinha—at the 2026…

Happy 61st, America: A Naturalized Citizen’s Toast On the Country’s 250th Birthday

I have been to exactly one event in my American life where grown adults from…

Future Tense: Justice Kavanaugh’s Qualified Support Leaves Room to Challenge the Constitutionality of Birthright Citizenship

The Fourteenth Amendment does not use hedged language. It was not written by people who…

Even Though the America I Arrived in Three Decades Ago is in Peril, I Believe the Struggle for a ‘Perfect Union’ Will Prevail

This July 4th would be my 32nd Independence Day in this country, and I can…

America@250: Despite Growing Inequalities and Racial Intolerance I Celebrate This Historic Milestone With Gratitude and Hope

Every Fourth of July and more so this year as America marks the historic milestone…

Berkeley Repertory Theater’s ‘The Lunchbox’ Combines Heart, Humor and Hope

Ritesh Batra’s internationally acclaimed film, “The Lunchbox,” adapted into a musical with the same name…

The Public Intellectual After the Age of Visibility: Thought, Authority, and the Strange New Reader in Our Midst

I.  A Note from the Summit The note arrived without preamble. It came from a…

Identity Crisis: So You’d Like to Prove You’re Indian? Good Luck With That

There is something inherently wonderful about India. It is a country that threw out the…

The Coming Deflationary World: Vinod Khosla’s Radical and Unapologetically Contrarian Views on Artificial Intelligence

Vinod Khosla, the billionaire founder of Khosla Ventures and an early $50 million backer of…