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3 weeks ago | 
indybay.org | Nick Burns
By We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!Donate $215.00 donatedin the past monthGet InvolvedIf you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us. PublishPublish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.
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1 month ago | 
ksjd.org | Nick Burns |Lara Jones
It takes an average of 20 years for a male sexual assault survivor to seek help. Sam Katz, of the nonprofit Men Healing shares his own story about the barriers that prevent boys and men from seeking help. For Rocky Mountain Community Radio, here’s K-R-C-L’s Nick Burns and Lara Jones.
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2 months ago | 
americasquarterly.org | Nick Burns
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article is adapted from AQ’s forthcoming special report on Guatemala. In 1927, Giovanni Angelo Bergoglio, an Italian peasant turned shopkeeper, bought a ticket for himself, his wife and his son to Argentina, aboard the SS Principessa Mafalda.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
estadao.com.br | Nick Burns
O legislador Johannes Kaiser está subindo nas pesquisas antes da eleição presidencial de novembro em meio a preocupações crescentes com o crime e a imigração. Ele foi chamado de “Gabriel Boric da direita” — talvez porque, como o jovem presidente do Chile, ele use barba e tenha feito seu nome criticando o establishment político do país. Mas Johannes Maximilian Kaiser Barents-von Hohenhagen, 49 anos, se opõe a essa comparação.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
americasquarterly.org | Nick Burns
Reading Time: 5 minutesHe’s been called the “Gabriel Boric of the right”—maybe because, like Chile’s young president, he wears a beard and made a name for himself criticizing the country’s political establishment. But Johannes Maximilian Kaiser Barents-von Hohenhagen, 49, objects to the comparison. “I worked as a laborer, as a waiter, as a bond salesman, I’ve done a thousand different things,” Kaiser, a lawmaker in Chile’s lower house, told AQ.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
nickburns.substack.com | Nick Burns
Chaos has been lately unleashed upon the two-million-strong American federal workforce by … the new management. Don’t let them tell you that Twitter isn’t real life when what happened to its workforce is now attempting to be wrought upon the employees of Uncle Sam!This turbulence is as good a reason as any to recall the most famous work of American literature about losing your government job: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous prologue to The Scarlet Letter, about his time in the Salem custom house.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
americasquarterly.org | Nick Burns
Reading Time: 5 minutesRicardo Monreal likes to talk about the constituyente permanente, the legislative power to rewrite Mexico’s constitution. It’s a power that his Morena party is currently making full use of—and Monreal is at the head of the charge. As leader of the Morena-led coalition in the country’s lower house, which has a dominant supermajority, Monreal is pushing through sweeping reforms that are shaking Mexico’s political system to its foundations.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
nickburns.substack.com | Nick Burns
I wrote down some observations after roaming around the margins of the Trump rally in the south Bronx in May. But I wanted to wait to develop some photos I took before publishing, and it ended up taking so long that the subject didn’t seem timely anymore, so I never did. Now that Trump has won a second term—improving his performance in the Bronx by 22 points, the biggest swing of any New York county—I thought it would be worth sharing them here. I haven’t made any changes to the below text.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
nickburns.substack.com | Nick Burns
Eve of another American election. Four years ago I was staying with my grad student friends in Baltimore when the election arrived. We wandered through cold deserted boarded-up Washington, D.C. and then drove back and wandered around cold deserted Mount Vernon, stood in front of the Washington Monument there—like much about Baltimore’s old neighborhoods, much more attractive than its D.C. counterpart—and contemplated the American past and future in an attitude of mock graveness.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
nickburns.substack.com | Nick Burns
The other day I found myself back in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn, in a café on the border between Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, drinking a glass of wine and eating chips, waiting to meet a friend for dinner. People came and went … including a woman who, as if to draw a line under a stereotype, came in carrying a bottle of natural wine, with a baby bound to her chest by means of one of those wraparound contraptions popular among the Brooklyn hipster parent class.
