How Roads Shape Our Lives |
The six roads Ted Conover traveled for his The Routes of Man were not the first treacherous ones he came to know. Working on his book Coyotes, Conover attempted a trip from Phoenix to Los Angeles with migrant workers in a beat-up station wagon. An hour along, the station wagon broke down, and the driver disappeared with the money Conover and his fellow travelers had paid for the trip.... |
features
FEUILLETON
South Asia
Parliament India reserves a swath of seats for women. Will it ever be the same?
Bollywood How Pakistanis came to love it.
POEMS
MARE IMBRIUM: a girl in the birthing room
by Karen An-Hwei Lee
For all mujeres, I hold a cluster of yellow-eyed daisies
lest one day my soul, too, contort in pain.
Rain is colostrum rich. A new moon sips thin
IN THE GREEN ROOM
Steve Westly
Steve Westly is a Managing Partner of The Westly Group, a venture capital firm that invests primarily in clean technology companies. Prior to founding The Westly Group, he served as the Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer of the state of California. Read more about him below.
John Rich: What Fuels the Cycle of Urban Violence?
Dr. John A. Rich explains why victims of urban violence suffer trauma like returning soldiers, and why doctors' failure to treat it makes the problem worse.
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About Zócalo Public Square
Zócalo Public Square is a non-profit organization that mobilizes broad audiences around the fundamental issues that affect our lives as Americans. Through our web magazine, lectures, panels, screenings, and conferences, Zócalo takes on compelling ideas from a wide range of fields — politics, governance, health, economics, technology, foreign policy, arts, science and beyond. Believing that over-specialization and narrowcasting undermine the public square, Zócalo seeks to restore broad-mindedness to civic and intellectual life and to welcome a new, young and diverse generation to the conversation.
Since 2003, Zócalo has roamed around Los Angeles, to Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco and as far as Shanghai, Berlin and Guadalajara. We have featured over 800 thinkers and doers online and on the ground, using our live events to build community and feed the open, accessible, non-partisan spirit of our magazine.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010,
Is Mass Incarceration the New Jim Crow?
Michelle Alexander
Americans celebrated the election of Barack Obama as a “triumph over race.” But in major U.S. cities today, the majority of young black men are locked behind bars or labeled felons for life. Jim Crow laws may have been wiped off the books decades ago, but an astounding number of ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010,
Do Democracy and Religion Mix?
Ian Buruma
Well before the rise of political evangelicalism, Americans have blurred the church-state divide, whether for spurring major social movements like women’s suffrage or civil rights or for hitting the campaign trail. But how well does democracy mix with God? Europeans worry about radical ...
Books
Ten Years Old and Divorced
by Nujood Ali
The story of the divorce that shook the Muslim world, caused the Yemeni parliament to raise the age of consent, and earned the then-10-year-old international press attention.
The Routes of Man
by Ted Conover
The history of speed, from the first teenage driver to the first woman to drive the Indy 500 to Conover's teenage trek through Colorado in his dad’s Porsche to meet a girl.
The Dragon's Gift
by Deborah Brautigam
The truth behind sensational headlines about China's involvement in Africa.
The Shot
