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Feb 9, 20213 min read
American Fascism on Trial
An insurrectionist at the Capitol holding the battle flag for the Confederates during the Civil War (Photo by Reuters) Former United...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Feb 4, 20215 min read
COVID-19 Cases Drop in Catastrophic Portugal
A hearse at a care home where a resident died of COVID-19 (Photo by Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP) In Portugal, cases of active COVID-19...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jan 28, 20218 min read
Patriot Thomas Paine on COVID-19
A volunteer in an Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine trial in Soweto, South Africa, in July 2020 (Photo by Felix Dlangamandia/Beeld/Gallo Images...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jan 21, 20215 min read
What Israel's Vaccine Rollout Got Right
Patients at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Tel Aviv (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP) Many countries with sluggish COVID-19 vaccine rollouts...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jan 14, 20212 min read
A Virtual Inauguration
Many cringed in fear when President Barack Obama and the First Lady left the limousine and walked the inaugural parade route for minutes...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jan 7, 20214 min read
Trump Cheats at U.S. Capitol
When I saw the rioter sitting in Senate chambers in the recently vacated chair of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence yesterday, I was...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jan 6, 202110 min read
U.K. Panics: Vaccine Rollout Could Cost Lives
The queue of lorries on the M20 was several miles long at Dover port caused by its closure after France shut its border to the U.K....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 31, 20202 min read
The Long Shadow of COVID-19
My holiday season is subdued this pandemic year. Since March, when COVID-19 pushed its way into my life, I maintain a high anxiety level....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 26, 20201 min read
Steinbeck Celebrates Our Perfectibility
John Steinbeck's Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962: "The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 20, 20204 min read
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Cynthia Adina Kirkwood visiting Santa Claus at Macy’s Herald Square, Manhattan, circa 1961 Originally published in The New York Sun in...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 19, 20203 min read
Buried Pain Scares Blacks From Vaccine
My mother had been frustrated trying to get pregnant with a second child. I was her first. In desperation, she would visit her doctor. I...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 13, 20205 min read
“Vaccine Nationalism” at "Full Speed"
Volunteers wait to be checked at a vaccine trial facility in Soweto’s Chris Sani Baragnarath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 9, 20205 min read
“Broken Planet”: "Mega-Fires" in Portugal
Residents turned garden hoses on the flames near Obidos, hours after the October 2017 fire began in Portugal’s interior. (Photo by...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Dec 4, 20204 min read
Spectacular COVID-19 Vaccines
News of the vaccines lifted my heart as did the fireworks in Lisbon last New Year’s Eve. Two safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 27, 20206 min read
The Unexpected This Flu Season
I have been on the prowl for a flu vaccine. To no avail, I have made a few weekly visits in Portugal's Beiras to the village pharmacy in...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 24, 20209 min read
Fighting the Stench of Poverty
Environmental activist Catherine Coleman Flowers stands over a pool of raw sewage outside a home in White Hall, Alabama (Photo by Bob...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 17, 202012 min read
Anybody Home? (A Short Play)
The artists, Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur, reimagined Norman Rockwell's "Freedom From Want", the iconic 1943 homage to American...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 13, 20207 min read
Don't Wait: Get Unwell Children Seen in Pandemic
Tagan Ja’Nae Marie Drone, 5, died hours after testing positive for COVID-19. Distraught parents of a kindergartener, who died hours after...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 8, 20202 min read
How to Leave Abusive Trump
The Joe Biden/Kamala Harris win sparked spontaneous celebrations around the U.S., including Black Lives Matter Plaza outside the White...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Nov 5, 20202 min read
Counting Votes, Picking Olives: Honest Work
After the harvest in Ervedal da Beira, Coimbra district in Portugal We spread voluminous green mesh mats around olive trees to catch the...
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