Because Democrats have an uneasy relationship with money, and it will affect how they take on Trump. In the age of Donald Trump, there’s little point in subtext. The president spent the last week and a half on a post-impeachment revenge tour, booting the members of his administration who had testified against him and urging the Justice Department to go easier on his pal Roger Stone.

Anbara Salam Khalidi, just 20 years old, wasn’t afraid to stand up on a podium and make history. After spending two years abroad in England, the daughter of a prominent Sunni Lebanese family was asked to give a talk at the American University of Beirut in 1927. In England, she’d been most impressed by the relative freedom enjoyed by women. In Lebanon at the time, Muslim women were socially obligated to cover their hair and face by the age of 10.

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 was complicated in a number of ways. There was the catastrophic war that was tearing Europe apart, inflicting unspoken suffering on millions of people. There’s also the fact that it wasn’t even awarded that year. Thanks to a stipulation in Alfred Nobel’s will, which mandated that the prize be held until the following year if none of the nominees met all the criteria, German scientist Otto Hahn took it home in 1945.

Eva González Pérez was sitting at the kitchen table when her husband showed her the letters. He operated a childcare agency in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, and his roughly 300 clients had all received strange letters from local tax officials stating they would no longer receive a benefit meant to help working parents pay for child care. They’d also have to pay back the government the thousands of euros they’d received in the past two and a half years.

The ’60s were heavy, even if you were a kid, and the early ’70s weren’t much different. Family friends got maced by cops for being hippies. Neo-Nazi sympathizers were weirdly finding common cause with the Nation of Islam. And the war back home continued full force with vets returning with heads full of hate, PTSD and veins sometimes full of heroin, since junkies were a common feature of the cityscape back then.

At 5 am in the northern Myanmar town of Myitkyina, the road is still, a cool mist rising. The faint outline of a motorcycle appears, followed by another. Silently accelerating, they reach the outskirts of the capital of Kachin state and ascend a steep hill. The young men park their bikes, cast off their flip-flops and stretch, mountain views emerging as the sun rises.

Nick Richards’ mother is a breast cancer survivor, so the University of Kentucky center wore pink shoes in a recent game against Georgia during Coaches vs. Cancer Week in support of his mom. Richards’ pink shoes were particularly alluring for two reasons: He was the only player wearing pink, and those pink feet never stopped moving. Up and down the court the 6-foot-11 Richards ran.

One day when my father was driving at the age of 55, he noticed the streetlights were wavering. For most of us, that would have been enough to make an appointment, but it took my father several years before he finally consulted an eye specialist. The diagnosis: macula of the retina. Since then, his eyesight has deteriorated so much that his ophthalmologist recommended a treatment: injecting an anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) chemical directly into the eye.

Our friendly neighbor to the North? Not even. And very specifically not for Americans. You see getting into Canada has always been a colossal pain in the ass for Americans. “It’s not any easier for us getting into your country,” a border guard once sniffed at me, hinting at an in-kind reprisal campaign that benefits no one but border bureaucrats.

As the early Iowa caucus results started rolling in, call-and-answer chants of “Hari Hari” and “Shakti Devi” filled a dimly lit yoga studio in the tiny New Hampshire town of Keene more than a thousand miles away. To the beat of drums, cymbals and an acoustic guitar, 15 people gathered to chant and “send our positive intentions out to the world,” as the organizer described the event.