Mary Turfah
WHAT DO BABIES SMELL LIKE? The correct answer is Johnson & Johnson. The company put a lot of money into creating its signature scent—which consists of more than two hundred ingredients and is among the most recognized fragrances in the world—because of the well-established hold of smell on memory and memory on behavior. In more […] 
AS NEWS BROKE that a ceasefire agreement—tenuous, immediately delayed by Israel—had been signed, celebrations filled Gaza’s streets. People allowed themselves to take in this victory: the naked force of the entire West had failed, for over a year, to break their will. When news of the ceasefire reached me, via phone notification, I started crying. […] FOR A YEAR, ISRAEL HAS TARGETED doctors, mosques, mothers, fathers, churches, journalists, hospitals, toddlers, cats, horses, apartment complexes, and universities in Gaza. It has aired the torture of Palestinians on national television. Many have articulated this point: we are witnessing the first live streamed genocide. I come across a photo of a man bursted under […]