Billy Clem: As My Death Approaches
I am gravely ill. Medical tests indicate that my blood and many of my internal organs now fail to perform necessary functions. My body, enervated, starving, looks and feels terrible. … Continue reading
Kareem Tayyar: The Electrical Engineer
He could make a radio out of anything You’d come home and he’d have put one together out of the parts of that old Defunct television set that died one … Continue reading
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Suddenly What Happened to Japanese Americans 75 Years Ago Is Relevant
In May 1942, just six months into World War II, a medical doctor in the U.S. Army went to a notary in Fort Smith, Arkansas and signed over the sale … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: Trump Threatens National Security, Invoke Amendment 25
The Trump administration poses an existential threat to the United States and must be removed from office. We know that seventeen US intelligence agencies concluded that Russia hacked the … Continue reading
Adriana Ramírez: What does it mean to be a poet in the face of violence?
On Black Bodies, Metaphor, and Mourning . What roles does poetry play in response to violence? Can poets write about racialized violence without reinscribing it on others? –Susan B. A. … Continue reading
Video: Best of Luck with the Wall
. What would 2,000 miles of a US-Mexico border fence actually look like? The US-Mexico border fence, a major topic in the 2016 US presidential race, is a sprawling structure … Continue reading
Video: A Joan Miró-inspired Animation of Federico García-Lorca’s “Romance Sonámbulo”
. Winner of a dozen international awards in 2016, “Sonámbulo/ The Sleepwalker” is a fantastic dream journey through colors and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federico García-Lorca. The … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Primal Thrill
Kayaking with basking sharks provides a glimpse of the wonders we could experience if our seas are rewilded. I believe we possess a ghost psyche: a set of capacities that … Continue reading
Video: Bright Lights Late Nights — The Speakeasies Swing Band
. The Speakeasies Swing Band is made up Caterina Sisinni on vocals, Manolis Stamatiadis on Piano, Panos Karnoutsos on electric guitar, Christos Papadopoulos on clarinet and Ilias Gkirmpas on saxophone. Together … Continue reading
Joan E. Bauer: Progress Street
For Halloween in 1960, I dressed as an election booth festooned with Kennedy stickers & buttons. If you’re a woman over 60 & someone says ‘coat hanger,’ you don’t … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: The Treason of the Republican Presidents
The GOP has a history of striking deals with foreign governments to help it win presidential elections while out of power. Nixon and Reagan did it… and possibly Trump. If … Continue reading
Patricia A. Nugent: Only a Nazi Should be Called a Nazi
Drumming nervously on the steering wheel, I begin to mutter to myself. “C’mon, Renee. You told me 7:45, right? Actually, you demanded I pick you up precisely at 7:45. Well, … Continue reading
David Ades: In Response to the Accusation that I am Part of a Vast Jewish Conspiracy to Control the World
If I could stop wrestling with entropy long enough to consider this notion raised over and over the years like a scaffold, like a hangman’s noose and dangled … Continue reading
Michael Winship: For America’s Sake, We Need Answers about Russia. Now.
These first weeks of the Trump White House have felt like one of those tennis ball machines run amok, volley after volley shooting at us in such rapid fire that … Continue reading
