Dreamers Rise

Scenes from a student-led anti-ICE demonstration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, February 3, 2026. The demonstration began with a scheduled walk-out from classes.
A local news article quoted one of the leaders, high school senior Lyla Caldwell:
“I’ve seen that ICE is going into schools and waiting outside of schools to take teenagers,” Caldwell said. “If they’re going to make it the place, we’re going to make it the place. It’s wrong.”...

In the 1980s, with his international reputation secured, Gabriel García Márquez agreed to write a series of brief syndicated essays that appeared, among other places, in the newspaper El País in Spain. His biographer, Gerald Martin, says that these pieces...

Maritime disasters have long served as inspiration for popular songs and ballads, especially when the drama of the incident is multiplied by the presence among the victims of those whom we identify as "innocents," as opposed to professional or military...

Last summer I chanced upon an interesting edition of the tale of Reynard the Fox in the free stuff shed in our local dump, and strangely enough this week I came across an account of one of his decendants in the same place. Bertha B. and Ernest Cobb's...