Karen Olsson

Dec 13, 2024 | mdpi.com | Karen Olsson

1. IntroductionPulmonary hypertension (PH), characterized by a mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) above 20 mmHg (formerly ≥25 mmHg), is a prevalent hemodynamic condition affecting roughly 1% of adults worldwide [1,2,3].

Mar 24, 2024 | portside.org | Karen Olsson

Fort Worth’s Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse Published March 24, 2024 This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.”  A version of this story ran in the March / April 2024 issue of Texas Observer. They burned his coat before they killed him.

Mar 18, 2024 | texasobserver.org | Karen Olsson

They burned his coat before they killed him. This was in Fort Worth, in 1921, during a strike at a packinghouse: A Black worker, excluded from the whites-only union, crossed the picket line. After his shift, he was confronted by white strikers.

Sep 11, 2023 | texasmonthly.com | Karen Olsson |Rose Cahalan

This summer felt different. In August, my family came home from vacation to an Austin singed by heat; to ocher lawns and burnt leaves and highs of 106, 107, 109. The days were both deeply melancholy and surreal. Neighborhood streets were empty by midday, while cooler places, like Barton Springs Pool, were thronged at sunrise. We sometimes call heat oppressive, but by August we’d gone beyond that. The oppressor had won, crushed the resistance, made us stupid and strange.

Sep 9, 2023 | thebaffler.com | Karen Olsson |Roshan Abraham |Hari Krishna Kaul |Josef Burton

In March, a friend texted me a link, along with an “omg” and a shedding-a-tear emoji, to a story from the Texas Tribune, a political news site. “Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff,” read the headline. The nonprofit board that oversees the Observer had decided to suspend operations because the magazine had run out of money, which was bewildering news to anyone who’d ever been involved with the Observer: Hadn’t it always been out of money?