Issues gathers thematic collections of essays, reflections, interviews, and reports exploring contemporary challenges to democracy, human rights, political culture, and public life from diverse international perspectives.
Issues gathers thematic collections of essays, reflections, interviews, and reports exploring contemporary challenges to democracy, human rights, political culture, and public life from diverse international perspectives.
Paweł Pieniążek from Kyiv – 03/01/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Overhead we heard the reverberation of a guided rocket engine and whistling. A minute later it hit a TV tower a few kilometers away from my location. | CORRESPONDENCE BY PAWEŁ PIENIĄŻK FROM KYIV The driver parks the car. I get out with two journalists to talk to volunteers in the ranks of the territorial defense. …
Paweł Pieniąźek from Kyiv – 02/23/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. The capital’s military store has been under siege since the threat of another Russian attack began to loom over Ukraine. It’s hard to squeeze between the hangers and shelves of the store in the late afternoon. Customers and curious people browse winter jackets (one was recently bought by the Minister of Defense, and earlier also by the …
Paweł Pieniążek from Kharkiv – 02/24/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. At five in the morning, I was awakened by bangs. The sound was unmistakable. I knew it had begun. Tetiana, a middle-aged woman, engages me in conversation on the metro. This is the second hour that she has spent trying to get to Gagarin prospect in southern Kharkiv. “There is no space in the marshrutkas [minibus taxis]. …
Paweł Pieniążek – 02/24/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Kharkiv | The building in Piatykhatky is one of the first to suffer from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Fortunately, the rocket did not explode, otherwise we would not be standing here,” says 40-year-old Yuri. Moments after 5 in the morning, there was a barrage. Mykhailo, 25, instinctively jumped up from the futon. He wanted to run out into …
Paweł Pieniąźek from Kyiv – 02/19/2022 Oleh uses an app where he records how he spends his time. It asks him if he spent the day as if it were his last. Recently, Oleh has been asking himself this question too. Every day. He strives not to regret any of them. Early Tuesday afternoon, Reuters started broadcasting live from Kyiv; the camera was placed overlooking Independence Square. The …
Paweł Pieniąźek from Kyiv – 02/22/2022 The growing threat of Russian aggression means that more and more Ukrainians are deciding to prepare themselves to defend the country. An abandoned factory on the outskirts of Kyiv has been put to new use: The training of territorial defense reservists every Saturday. A more experienced group practices securing the facility, setting up camp in run-down buildings. Recruits who have just come …
A conversation between Irena Grudzińska-Gross and Dwayne Betts 9 December 2020moderated by Jeffrey Goldfarbintroduced by Marci Shoreorganized by Lala Pop Marci: As you know, the original impetus for this forum was horror of the children being taken away from their parents at the American border, and my saying to Stephen Naron that we should use material from the Fortunoff archive to prepare a film about parent-child separation during …
How local meanings mattered in 1900 and still matter now In the spring of 2020, I received an email from David Kenley asking me if I would consider contributing to Teaching about Asia in a Time of Pandemic, a book he was editing. I told the historian of China and Southeast Asia that I would like to be part of the project but did not have anything to …
The Nazis tore apart Jewish families. They pursued the work of separating families because they perceived Jewish lives as having no value, and their family unit as carrying no integrity and sanctity. The history of family separation is a story of unspeakable emotional pain, as family members often bid a permanent farewell to their loved ones in confusing and terrifying circumstances. It is also a story that sheds …
I am a first-year teacher at a middle school outside of Baltimore. My school is one of the most diverse – and therefore most low income, underrepresented, and overpoliced – schools in my county. Many parents in this Baltimore district use false addresses just to remove their children from the city school system, and our middle school is a close option. It’s not hard to understand why the children in …
