Matt King, a 34-year-old graphic designer living in New York, has long grappled with his identity as the son of a Canadian-Chinese mother and white father. Despite being born in the US and raised in Los Angeles, he is aware that mainstream US society does not always see him as a bona fide US citizen. “You’ll always get ... a sprinkling of this ‘you’re not truly American’,” the 34-year-old resident of Brooklyn, New York, said, prompting him to claim his own definition. “To me, being an American...
In modern America, it seems violence of this kind has become an ever-present storm that can strike anywhere and at any moment.
Years of war have fundamentally changed Israel's politics, economy and society, analysts say.