In washington, Some Tribes Turn to Cannabis to Support Health and Healing

By Syd Stone SEQUIM, WASH. — The Cedar Greens Cannabis shop sits just off of Highway 101, across from the serene waters of the Sequim Bay along Washington’s North Olympic coastline. The store’s walls and floors are lined with cedar planks, and water flows under an indoor bridge that sits just beyond the entryway. In the center […]

SOUTH AFRICA’S FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION LIMITED BY LACK OF COMPUTER LITERACY, ACCESS

By Amy Sokolow Medill Reports Thabo Malatji, 29, commutes an hour from Alexandra, a township north of Johannesburg, to Tembisa, another township even farther north, every day for work. His office is inside a cluster of vibrant blue, green and orange converted shipping containers, which pop against their dusty surroundings. The neighborhood is dotted with […]

GABE HUDSON: WHAT I’VE LEARNED

I was very cognizant of the generation that came before me — the Vietnam generation, my parents’ generation — so when I was writing “Dear Mr. President,” I felt that the characters were in conversation with the war literature that belonged to it. Nobody was thinking about war — this was pre-9-11. There wasn’t all […]