Curious

by David Blackmon   Climate change activist Greta Thunberg made news recently when she was arrested during a protest at a coal mining site near Lutzerath, Germany. The news did not come so much from her arrest by German police dressed…

Last Thursday afternoon, I hired a driver from Yango, the Ivory Coast’s version of Uber, to take me to Yamoussoukro, the political capital of Côte d’Ivoire. I wanted to see the Notre Dame Basilica, the largest Catholic…

Placeholder while article actions loadOn June 19, former president Donald Trump sent a letter to the National Archives. The subject was not his ongoing dispute with the agency over material he’d removed from the White House and brought…

Maybe it’s the turrets on the upper floors, or the raised walkway to the garage, or the seemingly constant state of construction, but Bob Erickson’s house has always inspired wonder. Hence, the feeling of melancholy when Columbus Monthly…