From the TV remote to the group text to the ghoulish glow of the tablet I should have stowed before curling …
On August 15, 1947, my father George Mayer celebrated India’s freedom from 300 years of British …
Nǐ hǎo, jiāzhōu!
Hello, California …
Several weeks ago, we convened a group of Muslims and Jews in our network to talk about the unrelenting …
My wife and I live in a rural farming area in Western Pennsylvania. We moved here five years ago because we’re country people, and it’s only 20 minutes from where I grew up and where my mother still lives.
Here we have chickens, a big garden, and a wood-burning stove but no broadband internet, which sometimes makes it hard on my wife, who works from home.
Each week, I commute about an hour to a small liberal arts college in Pittsburgh where I specialize in U.S. labor history. When I drive to work on Monday morning, it feels like leaving one political universe and entering a parallel one …
Zócalo Public Square is proud to mark the 15th year of our annual book prize, which honors the U.S.-published nonfiction book that best enhances our understanding of community and the forces that strengthen or undermine human connectedness and social cohesion. Since 2011, we have honored authors who explore these important themes, which remain at the core of our mission of connecting people to ideas and each other.
Each year seems to present new threats to human connection—from political polarization and pandemic-enforced isolation to the siloes of our digital lives. And each year, a new crop of authors surprises and intrigues us with their incisive …
The city of Los Angeles, the world’s most famous zócalo, and the word “Latino” are connected by a shared history—a history of people and cultures and languages colliding, explained journalist and novelist Héctor Tobar. Tobar is the winner of the 2024 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize for Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of …
