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Jan 24, 2025 | 
dropsitenews.com | Gabb Schivone
“When you have sons fighting in the IDF, you live in a state of personal and permanent emotional conflict about the war and about the state of the Jewish people,” Rabbi ShmuleyBoteach wrote in a column in the Jewish Journalthis past summer. “Pride and fear. Defiance and surrender. Love and hate. You’re confused.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Kyle Paoletta |Gabb Schivone |Zachariah Webb |Zoe Hu
Amid all the Democratic hand-wringing and backbiting that followed Donald Trump’s election in 2016, some progressives found solace in the Sonoran Desert. After a twenty-four-year reign as the sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio, the politician who made Arizona ground zero for the confrontational nativism taking over the GOP, had been vanquished.
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May 9, 2024 | 
tucson.com | Gabb Schivone
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:The setting sun created a saffron glow on the faces of the more than 100 mainly student inhabitants who populated the Gaza encampment at the University of Arizona on its first day as a large brass band arrived to play a concert for them. The mood was joyous. Earlier in the day saw a teach-in; food and camaraderie marked the occasion filled with hope and promise. But it all turned into fear and terror in the early hours of Weds.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Gabb Schivone
The Arizona State Capitol complex in downtown Phoenix looked dark and dreary after working hours, but anyone passing by would have noticed at least one office light still on. Inside, Bruce Wheeler’s face soured when his eyes ran across some unusual line items in the proposed state budget. The year was 2016, and Arizona’s Republican majority had just finished designing the new state funding allocations.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
palabranahj.org | Gabb Schivone |Imágenes de |Rebecca Noble |Lygia Navarro
Para Imelda, el MAS fue revelador. Había autores que visitaban los salones de clase. Los pupitres solían colocarse en círculo para que los estudiantes pudieran mirarse a los ojos como iguales. Los profesores alentaban a los estudiantes a conectarse con su comunidad a través de proyectos de investigación sobre justicia social.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
azluminaria.org | Gabb Schivone |Rebecca Noble
A version of this story was originally published by palabra. Sign up here to receive alerts about new reporting from palabra. Imelda G. Cortez, a sophomore at Pueblo High School, didn’t want to be in the counselor’s office. The older white counselor had asked to see Imelda’s mother, after trying, unsuccessfully, to dissuade Imelda from entering Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies (MAS) program.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
palabranahj.org | Gabb Schivone |Rebecca Noble |Lygia Navarro
Imelda Cortez, a sophomore at Pueblo High School, didn’t want to be in the counselor’s office. The older white counselor had asked to see Imelda’s mother, after trying, unsuccessfully, to dissuade Imelda from entering Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies (MAS) program. Why would she take Mexican American Studies, the counselor asked, if she was already in gifted classes and excelling academically? Still, Imelda persisted. She knew what she wanted.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
slate.com | Gabb Schivone
Life As soon as the last word of my story’s punchline left my lips, David Sedaris erupted in a fit of laughter. Eyelids clenched, mouth agape, he cackled at the ceiling of the posh lobby abutting the colossal hall where he had just performed a near-sold-out show. A surge of satisfaction washed over me. I had just put Sedaris, a master humorist, on the other side of the laughs after he had held a couple thousand people rapt in their seats.
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Sep 16, 2023 | 
rsn.org | Gabb Schivone
An Intercept investigation reveals how rare it is for officers who use excessive, deadly force to be barred from working as cops. Rarely does a new police hire make national headlines. But when Myles Cosgrove got a job at the Carroll County sheriff’s department in northern Kentucky this past April, people had reason to pay attention.
About three years earlier, he and his squad of Louisville police officers had used a battering ram to break into Breonna Taylor’s home during a deadly raid.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
thenib.com | Anthony Pugh |Gabb Schivone
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