by Alia Wong | Apr 27, 2020 | gender, health care, language & culture, lifestyle
Charlotte Lau is a self-described “digital nomad.” The 31-year-old American citizen has lived and worked in other countries since graduating with a bachelor’s in international relations roughly a decade ago. Born and raised in New York City, Lau was always fascinated...
by Alia Wong | Apr 2, 2020 | gender, health care, parenting
(iStock; Lily illustration) “We don’t know what to do,” says Catherine Jones, a registered nurse at a Boston-area community health center. As the uncertainty surrounding covid-19 quickly mounted in recent weeks, 30-year-old Jones and her colleagues at their...
by Alia Wong | Dec 9, 2019 | education, hawaii, k-12 education, language & culture, politics, public schools, race
Solomon Enos The orphan was surveying the sea from atop a lava-rock shrine when he saw them—omens that looked just as his uncle, a kahuna, had foretold. There was a flock of airborne stingrays amid a series of towers, all hovering over a forest floating...
by Alia Wong | Nov 8, 2019 | government, higher education, money matters
It took a little more than a decade for the University of Chicago to reinvent itself, going from a well-regarded but largely regional school to an extremely selective university with national prestige. In 2006, the Hyde Park university admitted more than a third of...
by Alia Wong | Oct 7, 2019 | child development, lifestyle
Middle school. The very memory of it prompts disgust. Here’s a thing no one’s thinking: Geez, I wish I still looked the way I did when I was 12. Middle school is the worst. Tweenhood, which starts around age 9, is horrifying for a few reasons. For one,...
