Dana Varinsky
The parents of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died after being imprisoned by the North Korean regime, responded for the first time Friday to President Trump's comments siding with dictator Kim Jong Un on the death of their son. In Vietnam, Mr. Trump, who said he mourned the stud...
Grace is a sophisticated city girl, a college student, from Seattle while Tak is a bumpkin from rural California. Despite their differences, they fall in love. Typical. But this takes place behind a barbed wire fence, in the WWII Japanese American camps. Even there, the relationship grows u...
North Koreain the past has held arrested American citizens for an extended period before high-profile U.S. figures travelled to Pyongyang to secure their freedom. Last year, American university studentOtto Warmbier died days after he was releasedin a coma from North Korea after 17 months in cap...
What happened to U.S. college student Otto Warmbier—who was imprisoned in North Korea and sent home brain-damaged—is even more shocking than anyone knew.
Toyo Miyatake, a Japanese 73 American, was imprisoned in Manzanar internment camp and secretly took the pictures of the camp. Denenberg lives in Westchester County, New York. He is not an Asian American, and states he wanted to write Ben Uchida's story since Japanese Americans whom the U....
the country as an agrarian society in the style of Mao Tse-tung’s China. Cities were evacuated and an unprepared population was sent to work on collective farms. Factories were abandoned, banks shuttered, and religion viciously suppressed. Those who raised their voices were imprisoned and ...
Consequently, the US possesses an exceptional dependence upon incarceration, especially of its poor and ethnic minorities, such that more than 2.5 million citizens are imprisoned in more than 9,000 jails and prisons. The US holds 25 percent of the world’s prisoners – boasting the world’s hig...
student loan debt, and the uncertainty of low-wage jobs that could be outsourced at any moment. At the same time, the American political scene is driven by fear: of immigrants, of anuclear war with North Korea, of Russian meddling (real or imagined), of growing Chinese power, and of th...
The US State Department imposed a travel ban on September 1, 2017 following the death of Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student who was imprisoned in North Korea and returned home in a persistent vegetative state, dying shortly after. Martell, who had visited North Korea 11 times ...