The siren stops, and for a few seconds, no one moves. Sometimes when it starts, you walk slowly toward the shelter, gathering what you may need - your phone that won’t stop blaring, a water bottle, your baby, extra diapers, a snack for the kids, the dog. You already knew it was coming. The alert had sounded first, the one that makes it feel like the end of the world. But you’ve heard it hundreds of times now. You know the drill. Sometimes it happens in the middle of the night. You curse to...

Members of the Iranian women’s national soccer team cannot go home for fear of being imprisoned or k*lled by their own government. As a form of protest, Iranian women's national football team players Fatemeh Pasandideh, Zahra Ghanbari, Zahra Sarbali, Atefeh Ramazanzadeh, and Mona Hamoudi, refused to sing the IRGC national anthem in the tournament opener. As members of the IRGC were part of their delegation in Australia, it seems they were forced to sing the anthem at subsequent tournaments....

It has been one week of sirens, shelters, and the sound of explosions over our heads. I get messages asking me how I’m doing, how I’m feeling. And honestly? For me personally, I’m trying to turn the intensity down on my emotionality. I feel a lot of things all the time. I learned a long time ago that fear will choke you. Worry will ruin your life, making it hard to breathe. Hope can sustain you till it flickers. Then it’s hard to get back. But certainty- for me that’s the goal. That’s where...