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Foods With Misleading Names

The Browser editors The Browser
From Mongolian barbecue to Russian dressing, you can’t tell a food’s origin by its name.

Once Upon A Time

Fred Norman
Bay Area poet Fred Norman, a dedicated pacifist in Veterans for Peace, died on December 30. His anti-war poetry lives on.

Is a Civil War Ahead?

David Remnick The New Yorker
A year after the attack on the Capitol, the country is suspended between democracy and autocracy. That sense of uncertainty radically heightens the likelihood of episodic bloodletting in America, and even the risk of civil war.

Food and Culture

Ashawnta Jackson JSTOR
Food is complicated. That creation you love from “The Great British Baking Show? It’s been the subject of arguments over culture, identity and copyright.

We See You

Angela Decker Rattle
Oregon poet Angela Decker speaks calmly but insistently—“We see you”—to the “plague” of race murders.