by Alison Bass | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Within weeks of moving to Washington, D.C., I received not one but two notices of speeding violations in the mail. I was flummoxed, having never been pulled over speeding in the city. It turns out that both speeding violations were on the same stretch of road —...
by Alison Bass | Nov 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
A few days ago, I drove back to Morgantown, West Virginia to visit friends and family and pick up a lamp that had been left behind when I moved in August to Washington, D.C. It felt good to be back for a visit — almost as if I had never left, like slipping on a...
by Alison Bass | Nov 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
In her new book, The View from Third Street, long-time journalist Anita Harris writes about the trial in 1972 of the Harrisburg Eight, a group of anti-Vietnam war activists including the priest Philip Berrigan who stood accused of planning to kidnap Henry Kissinger...
by Alison Bass | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
I was in Santa Cruz this weekend for a family occasion and we had to walk past a large homeless encampment on the way to the hotel. Like many cities (especially those in warmer climes), Santa Cruz has a significant homeless problem. And like many cities, it tries to...
by Alison Bass | Sep 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
What might the actress Constance Wu, the fictional character Tracy Flick and the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old lynched in 1955, have in common, other than the fact they were all featured on the Atlantic Festival’s Ideas Stage last week in DC? You...
by Alison Bass | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
At an event organized by the Atlantic magazine in D.C. yesterday, I attended two back to back panels on seemingly disparate topics: the impact of social media on teenagers’ mental health and America’s gun crisis. In the first panel, a mental health...
