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Private prison companies treat immigrant detainees like convicted criminals—and reap huge profits from the people they hold Will the nation’s identity continue to be pastoral, or will its urbanites create a hip young image of environmental awareness? A member of the second generation of her family to be born in America, Phyllis Rose grew up translating her mother’s Yiddish, sometimes curse on Columbus which “expressed the immigrant’s exasperation with the land of opportunity.” For Rose, it took many years to fully you’re healthy,’ implying ‘nothing else matters.’ If she had a philosophy, that was it, a frail reed to me when I was young, but de*per and de*per in meaning the older I get.” In the midst of this year’s Hanukkah celebrations, Rose’s insights about the importance species of insects, bacteria, fungi, and plants that lurk in our floorboards, on our counters, and inside our kitchen cabinets—not to mention the microbes that flavor our food itself. The trouble with wilderness, however, is that humans always want to tame it. An excerpt from Lara Bazelon’s examination of wrongful imprisonment Read more >. AN AMERICAN ÉMIGRÉ MUSES ON THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF NORTHERN SPAIN.