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TWO headlines from the July 12th issue of The Wall Street Journal: • “China Pays Price for Its One-Child Policy” • “Earth’s Population Should Peak Before Century” According to the Journal, the United Nations now “expects China’s population to drop to 639 million by 2100 from 1.4 billion today, a mu…

Jim Rayphand IT is something of a mind-boggle to come so far and yet still be so far away.  Such is the case with my conditional plan to run for Congress, if I can lose a certain amount of body-weight in a specific amount of time.  My close friends have taken to asking for updates. “Inquiring minds…

The following essay won third prize in the Northern Marianas Humanities Council’s 2024 My Marianas Writing Contest. IN the Pacific Ocean, lies a group of neighboring islands called the Marianas. Among the fourteen islands, one of them is my home: the beautiful island of Tinian. The home of luscious…

The following essay won second prize in the Northern Marianas Humanities Council’s 2024 My Marianas Writing Contest. “HERE you can try it on, just this once.” Mom smiles; carefully she places the tedious necklace around my neck, across my shoulders. I feel the warm beads pressing against my skin. T…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE TRUTH of the matter is that it’s obvious the CNMI is stuck in reverse needing to go forward. Ever since the poli-tricking that killed La Fiesta the CNMI has being slowly going backwards economically with no end in site because there has yet to be any REAL REFORMS to make the …

Pinakbet The following essay won first prize in the Northern Marianas Humanities Council’s 2024 My Marianas Writing Contest. BORN and raised in La Union, Philippines, in the early 70s, my mother’s childhood was marked by the rhythms of agrarian life on a rice farm. She toiled the fields planti…

IRIS Chang’s monumental work, “The Rape of Nanking,” energized the academic world, sent seismic shocks through the countries of East Asia, and motivated me deeply to research the relationship between China and Japan, a topic I still pursue with earnest.  You may know of the book, which spent ten we…