Jane Ahlin

"November always seemed to me the Norway of the year." So wrote the poet Emily Dickinson in an 1865 letter to a friend. She went on to mention November "noons...more laconic" and "sunsets sterner," along with references to deaths and illnesses of...

In a short piece for the New York Times, writer Masha Gessen talked of her deceased mother, Yelena Gessen, a Russian-language literary critic. Masha wrote of finding a short essay her mother had written. It began, "How does a strange land become ...

My husband and I thought we were smart purchasing a big old boat of a used car for our son to drive to and from school and activities. Nope. (So naïve.) You see, the car was an old 4-door Lincoln. We were thinking a big car would be safer than a little car in accidents; however, we soon learned…

Experts and expertise are to be disdained. The great Trumpster, himself, says so. If he adds the word, “hoax,” true believers relax and smile. The president is in control.

Jane Ahlin points out that Sen. Janne Myrdal's amendment to North Dakota's SB 2030 could have serious consequences.

Ahlin writes, "Words attributed to Jonathan Sacks, the late Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth seem appropriate: 'Don’t mix religion and politics. You mix religion and politics, you get terrible politics and even worse religion.'"

Ahlin shares the story of two anti-abortion Catholic grandmothers.

Jane Ahlin writes, “Frankly, the Republican establishment, which formerly viewed her as a darling but now is chomping at the bit to destroy her, cannot change the fact that she is in tune to North Dakotans in ways that group is not.”