Michael Moore: 5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win
Friends: I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Night on Earth and the Labor of Our Efforts at Being Still
We were all there to watch the darkness happen. The trains moved into it, the bums, the losers, the lost and stepped upon watched it rise above their tilted heads. … Continue reading
Audio: ‘Musee de Beaux Arts’ read by W.H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position
Video: Martin Scorsese on Framing
. In this animated video by Blank on Blank, Martin Scorsese explores the art of framing, both in film and in life.”Sometimes when it all comes together … you become … Continue reading
Judi Mitchell: How to be Wise
[At Vox Populi we specialize in exposing problems and proposing solutions, but our friend Judi Mitchell points out that it may be more important to be wise than to be right. … Continue reading
Video: Act of Love — Animal Courtships Performed By Humans
In this advertisement for Japanese condom manufacturer Sagami Industries, humans enact animal courtship rituals, demonstrating a grace and beauty rarely seen in our species. .
Adam Johnson: US-Led Airstrike Kills as Many Civilians as Nice Attack–But Gets Scant Coverage in US Media
A coalition airstrike reported on Tuesday that killed at least 85 Syrian civilians—one more than died in the Nice attack in France last week—wasn’t featured at all on the front … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: The Shoplifter
When the security guard Grabbed him by his jacket When he ran He wriggled out of it Left the guard Holding it, like a lizard’s tail In a cat’s mouth. … Continue reading
Ellen McGrath Smith: Shaken 126 — O thou my lovely boy who in thy power
The beauty of me Dost hold Time’s fickle glass his fickle hour is that I’m very rich and my women are beautiful. My fingers are long and beautiful, as, … Continue reading
Video: Melania Trump says, “Let my people go!” and other good stuff
. Just when you think that American political discourse could sink no lower, a former bikini model who would be First Lady takes the national stage and delivers a plagiarized … Continue reading
John Clare: I Love to See the Summer Beaming Forth
Sonnet I love to see the summer beaming forth And white wool sack clouds sailing to the north I love to see the wild flowers come again And mare blobs … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: Survival of the Fittest — Exercise as Medicine
Physical inactivity has been called the biggest public health problem of the 21st century. Of course just because someone calls it that doesn’t mean it’s true, in fact physical inactivity … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: My War as a Clarinetist
“One time, the band played a welcoming ceremony for these grunts – and I mean they walked right out of the bush and into “Stars and Stripes Forever.” John Samuel … Continue reading
Joaquin Sapien: Rough Passage — Abuse, Neglect and Death Aboard Private Prison Vans
“It’s like the airport shuttle from hell.” That’s how Zachary Raines described his experience as a guard escorting inmates to jails and prisons around the country to Marshall Project reporters … Continue reading
