by Teens in Print | Jul 7, 2024 | Nonfiction
Editor’s Note: This publication marks the launch of Consequence Forum’s newest series, the Young Writers & Artists Project. The follow three pieces are in collaboration with Teens in Print (TiP), a writing program directed by Mohamed Barrie that encourages and...
by Reed Kuehn | Jun 8, 2024 | Nonfiction
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Apr 1, 2024 | Nonfiction
Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED I don’t like my last name. Well, the first part of the hyphenation, the Bernstein. As a child, I thought it lumbering, inelegant. The name comes from a father I haven’t interacted with in decades. It brings...
by Jenn Budd | Mar 3, 2024 | Nonfiction
A sign for a restaurant at the Del Rio port of entry. Photo: Jenn Budd. Few Americans understand the policies that make up the immigration deterrence operations of the US Border Patrol. These mandates are often confusing and can change drastically from one...
by Peter Balakian and Cathy Caruth | Jan 29, 2024 | Nonfiction
From left: Harvard president Claudine Gay; Penn’s Liz Magill; Pamela Nadell, a professor of history and Jewishstudies at American University; and Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images....
by Steve Hide | Oct 6, 2023 | Nonfiction
Jan Philip was a Swedish student studying in the US before journeying to Colombia.Image courtesy of Jan Philip’s family. Watering the plants on my sunny Bogotá balcony, the phone rang. It was a delegate from the Colombian commission of the International Committee of...
by Carol Bergman | Jun 22, 2023 | Nonfiction
ec. 1, 1950: Third-graders at Clifford Street School kneel at desks and cover their faces and eyeswith their arms during a civil defense drill. Photo credit: Paul Calvert, Los Angeles Times When danger threatened him, he never got hurt. He knew just what to do.—Bert...
by Jenn Budd | May 23, 2023 | Nonfiction
November, 1995 | 288th graduation Few Americans understand the policies that make up the immigration deterrence operations of the US Border Patrol. These mandates are often confusing and can change drastically from one administration to the next, or even within a...
by Alan Stoskopf and Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady | Apr 9, 2023 | Nonfiction
Norman Brigade officers and Ukrainian children during a humanitarian aid operation.Norman Brigade, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Introduction Children throughout time have shared the impulse to tell others about their lives. When given the chance, they will draw...
by Max White | Jan 18, 2023 | Nonfiction
The United Nation’s aid convoy to Sare in East Timor Last August, Pope Francis appointed a new Cardinal, Virgilio do Carmo da Silva, from the tiny country of East Timor. East Timor had been a colony of Portugal until it was brutally occupied by Indonesia. I am not...
