A Colorado Community Rises to Protect Their Own
A hunt for a quiet interview space on Hope’s college campus led by chance to this room. Toward the end
A Blast of ICE in my Ballard Kitchen
POEM BY CLAIRE BUSWELL
Editor’s Note: On Jan. 25, 2026, ICE agents near Seattle, Wash., detained a father who was driving his 2-year-old son to daycare. In the backseat of the man’s car, the toddler sat alone in his car seat for 30 minutes, waiting for someone to pick him up after his father was taken away.
Writer Claire Buswell wrote her poem in response to the news story. p>
Monks Walk for Peace: A Photo Essay
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SUSIE POST-RUST
STORY BY SUSIE POST-RUST AND SHELLY NGO
As a group of Buddhist monks journeyed on foot from Texas to Washington, D.C., crowds lined the roads and highways to view their Walk for Peace. North Carolina alone, saw thousands of spectators gather, drawn by the monks’ messages of love and compassion.
Losing Naïveté While Advocating for Afghans on Capitol Hill
STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAMI L. RICE
I spent a May afternoon rushing through the wide halls of the U.S. Senate office buildings. It wasn’t the first time I was on Capitol Hill this past spring, but this time I chanced being late for an important flight because the clock was ticking on this issue that kept me coming back to the Hill. The next morning, I learned that day’s meetings had seemingly been for naught.
The Power of Possessions, the Power of Loss
STORY BY MARY VENDEGNA
In January of 2020, I packed almost all of my belongings into storage pods and moved into my friend’s guest room. I thought it would be for a couple weeks until I found my own place. Then we watched as the rest of the world struggled to stay alive. We watched as France and Italy were ravaged by the pandemic. Somehow, it felt like that couldn’t happen here in the U.S., or at least that it wouldn’t. Surely, we’d learn from their situation and adapt.
View From a Pandemic: Observed in Nashville, No. 5
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DAWN MAJORS, BILL STEBER, JOON POWELL, AND JOHN PARTIPILO
Illustrating their divergent perspectives and practices, four photographers from Nashville, Tennessee, USA, each with a solid foundation in newspapers, have prepared a pandemic-era exhibit that is slated to be presented in 2021 at the Scarritt Bennett Center and at Vanderbilt University, both in Nashville. In the months leading up to the exhibit we’re featuring their work in an ongoing Anthrow Circus series, a project that is as much a study of photographic styles as a record of the pandemic.
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WORDS AND PHOTO BY JC JOHNSON
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One winter day, I was walking my dog when my neighbor invited me to sled with her and her friends. “Don’t worry, we are all over 30 and from the neighborhood, so take a turn. I’ll hold your dog’s leash while you go.” I was so excited to have a snow day and to finally have some pandemic-era human interaction, along with the chance to live my inner child.
View From a Pandemic: Observed in Nashville, No. 4
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JOON POWELL, JOHN PARTIPILLO, DAWN MAJORS, AND BILL STEBER
Illustrating their divergent perspectives and practices, four photographers from Nashville, Tennessee, USA, each with a solid foundation in newspapers, have prepared a pandemic-era exhibit that is slated to be presented in 2021 at the Scarritt Bennett Center and at Vanderbilt University, both in Nashville. In the months leading up to the exhibit we’re featuring their work in an ongoing Anthrow Circus series, a project that is as much a study of photographic styles as a record of the pandemic.
View From a Pandemic: Missing People Whose Names I Don’t Know
STORY BY JOANNA MARSH
Throughout the past year, I have wondered how “that woman” is doing. I don’t know her name, but I can see her face clearly in my mind: the brown eyes under thick eyebrows, the sharp nose, her black hair pulled back in a French braid.
I saw her regularly at the Washington, D.C., area gym where I worked out. She was chatty with the other women in the ladies’ locker room, often dominating the conversation. She cornered me once and asked whether I would take her into my house as a renter. She would be a good roommate, she said. Unobtrusive and tidy and responsible. Politely, I replied that I would let her know if I heard of anyone looking for roommates. She also worked in the childcare room at the gym, but my 6-year-old son didn’t like her and refused to come to the gym with me if she was going to be there. Was she mean? I asked. No, he replied, she just completely ignores us.Read More »
MicroView: What the Pain Protects
STORY BY PETE SHERRY
In June 2019, at the age of 43, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer. I underwent colon resection surgery and eight months of chemotherapy, and was then declared “cancer free” in the early spring of 2020.