Peter Temin: Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
A new model probes why the US leads the world in jailing and imprisoning people, and what it will take to reverse course. Mass incarceration in the United States has … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Marquee Moon
This is a poem for all the nobodies who got fucked over by someone with a name and became ghosts, who once held blueberries and radishes and tiny animals in … Continue reading
Video: Best Food to Counter the Effects of Air Pollution
. Nutrition expert Dr. Michael Greger says that there is a food that offers the best of both worlds, significantly improving our ability to detox carcinogens like diesel fumes and … Continue reading
Teresa O’Connor: Decolonize Your Diet
Love your Mexican food? Traditional indigenous food from Mexico is misunderstood in the U.S.—and is actually among the world’s healthiest. Pre-colonist cuisine was entirely gluten-free, dairy-free, and meat and fish were … Continue reading
Video: Operatico Politico vs Trump (Rossini Edition)
. Opera singers Rebecca Nelsen and Eric Stoklossa of Operatico Politico brilliantly summarize the Trump administration with a little help from Rossini. Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to … Continue reading
Video: W.S. Merwin reads “Yesterday”
. W.S. Merwin reads his poem “Yesterday.” Produced by David Grubin Productions and WGBH Boston, in association with the Poetry Foundation. Filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. — … Continue reading
Leonard Gontarek: War on the Natural World
Miss America calls to tell me to look closely at the trees, the cocoons like balls of cotton sunk in the leaves. The people of the town wearing nets … Continue reading
Sarah van Gelder: To the Millions Who Have Stood Up to the Trump Administration — Thank You
The Republican health care bill is dead. Good riddance. The bill was so harsh that even Donald Trump called the House version “mean.” And yet, this legislation was stopped at … Continue reading
A.E. Housman: Yonder See the Morning Blink
Yonder see the morning blink: The sun is up, and up must I, To wash and dress and eat and drink And look at things and talk and think … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: What We Do — Jane Austen’s Tenner
On Tuesday’s 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen – 1775-1817 – U.K. officials unveiled their new £10 banknote featuring “the mother of the great tradition of the English … Continue reading
Margaret Klein Salamon: The Planet Is Warming. And It’s Okay to Be Afraid
Why being fearful can be part of a healthy, heroic response to the climate crisis. Last Week, David Wallace-Wells wrote a cover story for of New York Magazine, “The Uninhabitable … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: He Came That Way
each day with the sheep, where the clear water from the spring enters the darker water of the river, that very place where it whirls and whorls and makes a … Continue reading
Charlotte Mew: May 1915
Let us remember Spring will come again To the scorched, blackened woods, where the wounded trees Wait with their old wise patience for the heavenly rain, Sure of the sky: … Continue reading
Angele Ellis: On Hearing That FBI Anti-Terrorism Agents Spied on the Thomas Merton Center
For Molly Moore Rush Pacifism is dangerous. Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who rose above his Seven-Storey Mountain to the Buddhist peaks of Nepal, was electrocuted by a faulty … Continue reading
Neal Gabler: Trump Bet Americans Would Like His Un-Presidential Antics. He May Be Right.
Is America one big con game? Political pundits have been intoxicated lately by explanations as to why Democrats always seem to be behind the eight ball — never mind that … Continue reading
