Standing anxiously next to a gas pump on the seedy side of San Diego, Mario’s mother Sandra waited. She had not seen her son Mario in four years—not since he joined the Navy. Mario didn’t want to make a big deal of the reunion, so he told his mother to pick him up at a gas station outside of Naval…
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I am American—my mother is from Illinois, and I have US citizenship—but I grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. I recently moved to New York City and living here has made me realize that I lack American cultural fluency. Thousands of kilometers away from Stockholm, where I grew up, the past three months have revealed differences between Sweden and the United…
Following the Arab Spring, and the Syrian Civil War, the Mediterranean became the main passage for EU-bound migrants. The migrant crisis of 2015 resulted in more than a million people crossing into Europe. While migration rates have lowered, Turkey’s authoritative leader, Recep Erdoğan, is taking aggressive actions that further destabilizes the Mediterranean. Turkey, a key member of NATO that houses…
For the first time since 2014, NHL players will be returning to the Olympics. The tournament, which features best-on-best competition, makes the NHL appear watered down. The quadrennial format, in which players compete for their countries, makes the Stanley Cup seem slightly less significant. Nine of the tournament’s 12 teams hail from the European continent. In this article I…