May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month – a time to commemorate the contributions of the Asian American community as a whole. While this sense of unity is deeply important, the APA label lumps together people with origins from countries as diverse as China, Vietnam, and India. If we hold each of these countries under [...]
“What have we done to democracy? … What happens when each of its institutions has metastasized into something dangerous? What happens now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism?” —Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy raises provocative and sometimes uncomfortable questions in her latest collection of essays, “Field Notes on Democracy: [...]
The financial crisis is deepening poverty’s reach across the globe; the fierce healthcare debate in the U.S. is raising questions about what rights are truly universal; and economic inequality continues to grow wider in superpowers like India and China. It’s an apt time for Irene Khan, Amnesty International’s first woman and first Muslim Secretary General, [...]
“I was diagnosed with depression when I was 10 after my first suicide attempt, and that wasn’t changed to bipolar [my actual diagnosis] until I was 15. Bipolar disorder is notoriously hard to diagnose … Luckily I was in a long term residential treatment center surrounded by psychiatrists who had to make daily reports all [...]
