Tom Engelhardt: Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview)
The 25/8 News Cycle Is Already Rolling, But the Looting of America Hasn’t Really Begun It started in June 2015 with that Trump Tower escalator ride into the presidential race … Continue reading
Donald Trump: I Hear America Tweeting
I hear America tweeting, the varied tweets I hear, Those of mechanics I never paid, each one tweeting as if I paid them and each one voting for me, The … Continue reading
Majid Naficy: Truth and Falsehood
I read in Egyption papyruses That Truth and Falsehood were brothers. One day Truth borrowed Falsehood’s dagger But lost it by misfortune. Falsehood took the case to court, Claimed the … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Make America Ungovernable
Donald Trump’s regime is rapidly reconfiguring the United States into an authoritarian state. All forms of dissent will soon be criminalized. Civil liberties will no longer exist. Corporate exploitation, through … Continue reading
Jennifer Jackson Berry: The Body Button
for my sister, Julia I have no way of knowing how many times she’s hit her body button— it’s how she calls for help when the patient’s fists are … Continue reading
Greg Thielen: The Republican Party — A Dangerous Ship of Fools
You know, I have to be completely honest, and this is coming from a person who lived through Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing and the two attacks on the World … Continue reading
Video: The Dress — a visual poem about the body
. This short video produced by the Paris-based media company Saint Louis is a visual poem about the elements that go into imagining the body. According to its website, Saint Louis “uses … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Muse
As a musician, he was solid and reliable, but unimaginative. His chief talent lay in being in the right band. He enjoyed drinking and taking drugs, still in the initial … Continue reading
Video: Do political protests make a difference?
. Millions of people across America are resisting Trump’s policies. Do our protests make a difference? Can they be translated into changes in our institutions? What are the next steps? … Continue reading
Frederick Douglass: If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress (1857)
On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. Most of the address was a history … Continue reading
Leslie McGrath: A Winter Impulse
Two waxwings at the suet cake. One pecks, the other picks what falls. It takes a winter impulse: work together to get through. What if it had been that way … Continue reading
Video: Resist — How to Triumph in Trumpland
. Based on decades of her writing and research, psychologist and community activist Glenda Russell gives us a quick summary on how to use Trump’s election as a springboard to … Continue reading
Kuno Raeber: So You Exist…
LAKE If the wind, when the wall of clouds pushed this way, hadn’t suddenly stopped, the leaves wouldn’t be swimming so quietly now, the branches wouldn’t be hanging, rusty hooks, … Continue reading
Eva-Maria Simms: To be lovestruck, not colorblind
In his Foreword to Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Cornel West challenges the idea of colorblindness as the driving force for … Continue reading
