| Letter fom Pittsburgh: Community healing requires more than just voting Posted: 06 Nov 2018 01:09 PM PST ![Letter fom Pittsburgh: Community healing requires more than just voting]( "Letter fom Pittsburgh: Community healing requires more than just voting") When the gunshots came to her neighborhood, Kristen Keller turned to books. Has been for 12 years, at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill. A collection on community and coming together that would also feature titles dealing with grief, fear, and death.
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| As first Muslim women head to Congress, balancing symbolism and service Posted: 06 Nov 2018 12:44 PM PST ![As first Muslim women head to Congress, balancing symbolism and service]( "As first Muslim women head to Congress, balancing symbolism and service") Rashida Tlaib never set out to be a "new face" of the Democratic Party – but on the cusp of her election to the US House of Representatives, she can hardly avoid the label. Not long ago, her profile – a Muslim civil rights lawyer and mother of two, raised by Palestinian immigrant parents in a majority-minority community in Detroit – might have been seen as too far a reach for Congress.
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| Ukraine needs the long arm of the law Posted: 06 Nov 2018 12:15 PM PST ![Ukraine needs the long arm of the law]( "Ukraine needs the long arm of the law") Far more than the people of Ukraine took notice on Sunday when a young and prominent anti-corruption activist, Kateryna Handzyuk, died in Kiev after an acid attack. While protests were quickly held in five cities demanding her killers be held to account, it was the strong reactions in Washington and European capitals that mattered more – mainly because Ukraine has become a test case of whether foreign pressure can help end entrenched corruption in a sovereign country. Ever since a pro-democracy revolution four years ago, Ukraine has been on the front line of the West's struggle with Russia and its brand of authoritarian rule.
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| Voice of a nation: How Juba Arabic helps bridge a factious South Sudan Posted: 06 Nov 2018 09:13 AM PST ![Voice of a nation: How Juba Arabic helps bridge a factious South Sudan]( "Voice of a nation: How Juba Arabic helps bridge a factious South Sudan") There was Kakwa, his mother tongue, shouted across scratchy cellphone lines to South Sudanese family back home and scattered around the region. Rabuna, Abuna fi sama, de akil al bi saadu gisim, he would whisper each night in Juba Arabic, hands clasped over his dinner plate.
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