This story was published in print in April 2024.  The following interviews were conducted in Ukrainian and translated into English. “When I hear the helicopter sound, I start to remember the first...

This story was published in print in April 2024.  When someone can’t fall asleep at night, they might pick up their phone, meditate or even count sheep. Recently, though, more and more children and...

“In the college in Kabul, I wasn’t thinking about what my teacher was teaching; I was thinking all the time if the Taliban will come and kill us.” After waging a 20-year insurgency, Islamic extremists...

Some names have been changed to protect privacy. This June marks three years since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade with a 6-3 ruling in Jackson v. Dobbs, breaking...

Trigger warning: discussion of suicide, drug abuse and violence   In the scenic mountains of Utah, worlds away from anything resembling civilization, lives a group of teenage girls. Bonded together...

This story was published in print in December 2022.  The faint sound of pointe shoes echoes through a narrow walkway as I begin to ascend a set of stairs. With each step, the soft tapping crescendos...

Robert Downey Jr. Scarlett Johansson. Chris Evans. Their signatures scrawl from left to right as fans dry tear-filled eyes. The rolling of emotion-filled credits after “Avengers: Endgame” (2019) marked...

Some names have been changed to respect students’ and teachers’ privacy. Every student knows that one teacher, at Whitman or elsewhere. The teacher who made their older sibling cry. The teacher...