After President Donald Trump changed not only the immigration rules of her new country but the political landscape of her native one, Franyelis found herself in a strange subplot of the US immigration ...
Most people — especially public figures — take the responsibility of memorializing the dead seriously. Eulogies should summon our better angels. They can help us grieve, emphasizing our common ...
About a year ago a good friend lost her mother at an advanced age. Six months later she lost a brother rather suddenly to cancer. We’ve been friends for decades and are now both retired. We’ve seen ...
For the second time since 2019, the comedic chops of Windsor-Born Dave Merheje have caught the eye of the Juno Awards voters.
I know grieving takes time and everyone is different. When I resisted any more minute-by-minute details, I was told I wasn’t a good friend. Am I really a bad friend because I just ...
The shooting deaths of white protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis have followed a playbook that is painfully familiar to Black Americans ...
The owner of the St. Paul comedy club that canceled the shows cited "heightened threats, increasing media attention and civil ...
People process childhood trauma differently. Some are lucky enough to be unaffected by it as they grow into adulthood.
There's always a few intriguing indie creations in the Sundance Film Festival line-up that are frustratingly bad, atrociously ...
Every month, I tick away at the debt, but I don’t let it swallow me or define the family I’ve worked so hard to build. Over ...
Following the recent shooting of Renee Good by an agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States, ...
Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.