4. Longing for Resettlement: The Psychological Impact of Banning Refugees
“In Dadaab refugee camp, the largest in the world, a researcher recorded a Somali term for that feeling: buufis, which was described in the book City of Thorns as the ‘longing for resettlement,’ or ‘a kind of depression rooted in an inextinguishable hope for a life elsewhere that simultaneously casts the present into shadow.’”
5. On the Milo Bus with the Lost Boys of the America’s New Right
“ This was never, in fact, about free speech at all. It was about making it OK to say racist, sexist, transphobic, and xenophobic things, about tolerating the public expression of those views right up to the point where it becomes financially unwise to do so. Those suddenly dropping Yiannopoulos are making a business decision, not a moral one — and yes, even in Donald Trump’s America, there’s still a difference.”
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