Kolleen Rayne

Kolleen Rayne

Hong Kong’s Shattered Idea of Home

For much of my twenties, I travelled back and forth between urban Hong Kong and the New Territories, a hilly area where my university campus sat. On countless afternoons, just outside of a campus gate, I would board a bus…

Incomplete Epstein Files Release Draws Criticism

Victims of Jeffrey Epstein and congressional lawmakers are condemning the Department of Justice for only partially releasing files related to the late convicted sex offender on Friday, the deadline set for the government to release all of its Epstein-related documents…

The Case Against ‘Christmas Creep’

Christmas creep has been with us for a very long time—since the late 1800s, in fact. It has evolved from a late-Victorian habit of early shopping to a socialist attempt to tackle overtime and seasonal child labor, and finally to…