At least 350,000 people have been killed in Syria’s 10-year war. The casualties ranged from members of various forces involved in the war to civilians, even women and children. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Friday. News Qatar-based Al-Jazeera. Michelle Bachelet, the UN High
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JoJo Siwa Wants to Be ‘a Role Model for People Who Love Love’
A few years ago, JoJo Siwa emerged as a tween wonder on the reality show “Dance Moms,” known for her brassy one-liners, rapid-fire pirouettes and rainbow-hued ensembles topped with huge hair bows. Today, Siwa, 18, is about to return to dance reality TV — as a budding queer idol. After
A Writer Reckons With the Fact That ‘People Love Dead Jews’
Horn’s view is that Anne’s words are inspirational exactly because her perspective is not only incomplete but also false. We take the easy way out rather than plumbing the depths of evil. We look for universal lessons in lieu of attending to the actual persecution of Jews. Horn wants us
Why Did Two People So Poorly Matched Stay Together So Long?
NOW BEACON, NOW SEAA Son’s MemoirBy Christopher Sorrentino As I was reading Christopher Sorrentino’s “Now Beacon, Now Sea,” I heard Rodrigo Garcia, son of Gabriel García Márquez, on the radio, talking about his new memoir, “A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes.” Garcia’s book is a loving chronicle of the last
Janice Mirikitani, Poet and Crusader for People in Need, Dies at 80
Poetry, she once said, was “the language of my definition and my liberation.” Among the subjects her poems explored was her family’s forced relocation from their chicken farm in Petaluma, Calif., to an internment camp in Arkansas during World War II. For long afterward her mother refused to speak about