Features
Japanese American Incarceration: How It Happened Here
After years of government planning, a president’s executive order in February 1942 launched the U.S. policy of rounding up, forcibly relocating, and incarcerating some 120,000 Japanese Americans.
Elizabeth Taylor: Myth Made and Remade
Once at the apex of the Hollywood film industry, Elizabeth Taylor was not only a symbol of female beauty during the 1950s and ’60s, she also became a symbol of American cultural-political power.
Disappeared
Evelyn McDonnell describes the loss of a loved who was seized and detained amid round-ups currently being conducted by the U.S. government.
Aspects of Loss in Los Angeles
D.J. Waldie writes about loss, a place where, for many migrants, loss comes with the territory.
Living With Loss and Remembrance
We accumulate losses as life passes, it seems. But, says Bryant Keith Alexander, we also steadily accumulate the people who will care for us.
The Silence in Sentences
As his son struggles to relearn how to speak, Oliver de la Paz ’94, ’95 remembers his father’s attempts to erase his immigrant’s accent after arriving in the United States.
Loss Is a Body In Flames
Michelle Bitting, whose home burned in the January 2025 Palisades fire, reflects on living with loss and the promise of wholeness.
A Book Thief’s Confession
Mike Jordan Laskey wonders whether St. Anthony can help him locate his lost books he’s lended out. But can the patron saint of lost causes help Laskey with the borrowed books he’s never returned himself?
The Outsider President
President Jimmy Carter notched some notable successes in his one term in office. But his inexperience and lack of Washington, D.C., allies also weakened his hand in managing several crises, leading to his defeat by Ronald Reagan.
The Future of Democracy
Is America’s democracy under threat in the presidential election of 2024?