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Author: Zain Ebrahim

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11 min read News & Current Events

The United States government moved fast this week. Within days of a confirmed Ebola outbreak spreading across an international border in Central and East Africa, federal health authorities invoked a public health law so rarely used it had only been activated once before in the modern era. The speed alone is worth noting. Public health...

10 min read News & Current Events

The name “Ebola” comes with a specific kind of weight that has built up over decades of outbreak coverage – the grainy footage from isolation wards, the particular horror of a hemorrhagic fever spreading through communities that already have too little of everything. What has changed in May 2026 is specific: the strain now moving...

8 min read News & Current Events

A sitting president’s social media account is not supposed to be the place where you go to find out what’s actually on his mind. The official version is press conferences, prepared statements, policy announcements, the kinds of things that get drafted and reviewed and handed to a communications team before anyone sees them. Social media...

8 min read Food

The Pizza Hut parking lot is one of those places most Americans have a feeling about, even if they haven’t been there in twenty years. The checkered tablecloth. The Tiffany lamp throwing colored light across the booth. Someone loading a plate at the salad bar for the third time. Your parents still together, or your...

10 min read Relationships

Marriage gets proposed with flowers, tears, a carefully chosen ring, and a hundred people holding their breath. What it rarely gets is a serious question. Not “will you?” but the harder one underneath: why? And underneath that, something harder still – the question Friedrich Nietzsche, of all people, posed more than a century ago in...

7 min read Food

Nobody thinks of bananas as something that needs washing. That is the whole point of a banana. It comes in its own sealed packaging, a bright yellow wrap you’re going to throw away before it ever touches your mouth, and that logic has served as a reason to skip the rinse for a long time....

7 min read Inspiration

Twelve years is a long time to want something you can’t have. Long enough to grieve it in cycles, to stop and start hoping again, to sit through other people’s baby showers and smile in the right places while something inside you quietly closes a door. Bedriya Adem, a 35-year-old subsistence farmer from Ethiopia’s Harari...

10 min read Kids

You’ve probably looked at your child’s face and played the guessing game. The nose is yours. The ears are definitely his. The stubborn habit of refusing to ask for directions is, honestly, anybody’s guess. We tend to think of genetic inheritance as a 50/50 split, a tidy deal struck at conception where each parent chips...

10 min read Food

Chipotle has always carried a certain mystique in the fast-casual food world – a place that positioned itself somewhere between fast food and a real meal, where the promise was simple: big portions, fresh ingredients, reasonable prices. For a long time, that promise held. Then something started to feel off. Customers noticed their bowls looking...

9 min read Food

Think about what every parent knows deep down: the things your toddler puts in their mouth today don’t just fuel their afternoon. They’re building something. Bones. Immune systems. A brain that will eventually try to read, argue with you about bedtime, and one day do algebra homework. The connection between early food and long-term health...