Sam Gilbert
One Widow's Quest to Make Border Patrol Pay for Killing Her Husband
Her husband died after being beaten and tased by border agents, and now Maria Puga gets a chance to shame the United States in an international tribunal.
The Inconceivable Atomic Legacy of New Mexico
New Mexico is the "only state in the US supporting the entire cradle-to-grave nuclear economy," hosting uranium mining, nuclear weapons design and testing, the largest single arsenal of nuclear weapons, and—to the consternation of many—the country's...
Oktoberfest in Palestine
The Palestinian beer festival is notably more reserved than the German original, but over the past nine years it's still managed to draw in hundreds of thousands of people—often young, wealthy Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim—to celebrate...
This Palestinian Taxidermist's Stuffed Animal Zoo Is Heartbreaking
I’m at Qalqilya's zoo to see an exhibition of stuffed animals that Dr. Khader has created from the beasts that were killed in the Second Intifada, the four-year period of fighting that claimed the lives of 4,000 Palestinians and more than 1,00...
