We Were Never Friends, We Just Grew Up Together

The only sellouts I see are the whining fair-weather Bernie supporters

Please Shut Up About Milo and “Free Speech”

So, Milo Yiannopoulos got permabanned from Twitter, and, naturally, there is quite…

It Could Have Been Me

Will the tragedy of Dallas make a difference?

Trump, Metaphor and the Mythos of Election 2016

*For the past few months, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around just what the ever loving &*(^ is going on with Trump, the election, and America in general. This is what I’ve come up with. I’d love to hear what you think.**

No ordinary weekend : personal reflections on a failed coup

It was a humid, ordinary Istanbul evening. We, as a family with kids and all, were out in Karaköy. On our way walking home my phone rang. It was my dad. I could sense the undeclared anxiety in his voice. “Where are you?” he…

Charles Kinsey and Why Police Kill

Charles Kinsey, a therapist working in a group home setting, was shot by police while down on the ground with his hands up in the air. He had been trying to calm down an autistic patient when the police arrived on the scene, having allegedly (and erroneously) been told…

Dear American people,

Thoughts from a European citizen about shootings in the US