A Mother’s Day essay remembering my mom, Barbara Donahue (1929–2017), and my favorite punk band, The Plasmatics (1977–1983).
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The Hero’s March
Searching for the ghost of Russian novelist Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.
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Mongolia Rising
Mongolia strikes it rich on gold and coal.
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The Elwha River Runs Free
The Elwha was dammed a hundred years ago. Then in 2011, the feds began tearing down the river’s two dams, to the delight of the Lower Elwha Klallam Indians, who have fished the river for centuries.
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Who’s Lovin’ It?
A week among the Latino emigres working at one McDonald’s in Washington, DC.
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On With The Snow
The author launches a career as a nordic ski racer.
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Tea Party Road Trip
Riding the bus from Ohio to Washington, D.C., with a contingent of Tea Partiers bound for Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.
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Ways and Means
Russell Means is an American Indian activist and a movie star who played the last Mohican in Last of the Mohicans. In late 2007, he seceded from the United States, to launch The Republic of Lakotah. But is Lakotah an actual sovereign nation, or just a state of mind?
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Under the Sheltering Sky
Writer Paul Bowles spent most of his adult life in Tangier, Morocco. But when you search for his ghost there, what you find is the soul of the city.
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Edited by David Rowell.
Republished in Best American Travel Writing 2004.
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