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  • Election Letters

    In Georgia I Trust

    A Cobb County Poll Worker Is Confident Voting Is Safe, Secure, and Fair—Despite What Election Deniers Might Say

    by Ayanna B. Meyers |

    For a dozen or so elections since 2020, I have worked as a poll worker in Cobb County, Georgia. It has been an eye-opening experience that has made me more …

  • Essay

    What Will Deep-Sea Mining Do to Norway’s
    Oceans?

    Commercial Fishing Has Threatened Life in the Shallower Seas. Harvesting Seafloor Minerals Could Be Even Worse

    by Elyse Hauser |

    In what’s now Norway, the country with the world’s second-longest coastline, Neolithic fisher-farmers once harpooned enormous bluefin tuna. As centuries passed, Norwegians refined the arduous fishing process, becoming nimble conquerors …

  • Connecting California

    It’s the Best and Worst of Times in Oakland

    As Presidential Hopeful Kamala Harris Reaches New Heights, Her Hometown Is Filled With Despair

    by Joe Mathews |

    If Dickens were to rise from the grave tomorrow, I bet he’d head straight to the East Bay.

    Because we are watching a tale of two Oaklands.

    One Oakland is advancing on …

  • Essay

    The Borders Between My Mexican and American Identities

    I Went Searching for Documents to Validate My Binationalism. I Found Something More Complicated

    by Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul |

    This essay publishes alongside this week’s Zócalo and Universidad de Guadalajara event, “Are the U.S. and Mexico Becoming One Country?” Register here to join …

  • Poetry

    I Am Prone to Growing Old

    by Dilruba Ahmed

     

    These lines might declare
    that I no longer fear it, but I boast
    like one who wields

    new weapons—
    all bravado, flourish, and strut—
    while inside I’m gripped

    with recoil, knocked back

  • Essay

    What Came After My Father’s Murder

    A Decade Later, a Former State Legislator Is Still Wrangling With Police and the Criminal Justice System

    by Mike Gatto |

    It was the first and only murder in Silver Lake that year.

    I picked up the phone at our house in Sacramento, where I was serving my third year in the …

  • News & Notes

    Zócalo Joins the L.A. Local News Initiative

    The Coalition Aims to Revitalize and Rebuild Community Journalism and Media for Angelenos

    Zócalo Public Square, a unit of ASU Media Enterprise, joins the L.A. Local News Initiative, which will operate and support local newsrooms in Los Angeles to provide coverage in service …

  • Democracy Local

    Democracy Advocates Should Stop Fighting About Democracy

    Forget Deliberative vs. Direct vs. Electoral. We’re All on the Same Team

    by Joe Mathews |

    If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must come to see themselves as members of the same team.

    Unfortunately, global democracy is a field divided. And not …

  • Essay

    Does My Neighborhood Want Me to Drop Out of College?

    A Student in Watts Asks Why She’s Spent a Decade Choosing Between Survival and Her Degree

    by Shanice Joseph |

    Zócalo celebrated its 20th birthday recently! As part of the festivities, we’re publishing reflections and responses that revisit and reimagine some of our most …

  • Essay

    Is Birth Control Under Attack?

    Moves to Limit Contraception—From IUDs to the Pill—Are Following the Anti-Abortion Playbook

    by Megan Kavanaugh |

    Zócalo celebrated its 20th birthday recently! As part of the festivities, we’re publishing reflections and responses that revisit and reimagine some of our most …

  • Poetry

    Halation

    by Georgia M. Brodsky

     

    With her, you are more. Morning now. You are
    horizontal in the guest bed most of the time. You
    are awake and horizontal more than you have ever
    been. She …

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