Alexis Rhone Fancher: Thin-Skinned
You called it the ‘Winter of the Oranges,’ that February into March when our love was new, and the downtown Farmer’s Market sold thin-skinned navel oranges for cheap. You’d grab … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Pentagon proposes using nuclear weapons against terrorists
The Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review calls for dropping nuclear bombs on countries that harbor terrorists. The draft of the Pentagon’s proposed plan to “update” the United States’ nuclear weapon … Continue reading
Robert Okaji: Sometimes Love is a Dry Gutter
Or a restless leaf, a footprint. Is fault on a blameless day, scrawled on a washed-out sky. My friend’s music orbits his home, worms through the cracks in … Continue reading
Frances Moore Lappé: Farming for a Small Planet
How we grow food determines who can eat and who cannot—no matter how much we produce. People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale … Continue reading
Kyle Harper: How climate change and disease helped the fall of Rome
At some time or another, every historian of Rome has been asked to say where we are, today, on Rome’s cycle of decline. Historians might squirm at such attempts to … Continue reading
Andrena Zawinski: Dancing with Neruda’s Bones
Neruda, only known to me in the poet’s words–– I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul–– Neruda’s bones … Continue reading
Paul Buchheit: How Inequality Is Killing Off Humanity
The super-rich are making it nearly impossible to reverse the deadly effects of an unnaturally unequal society, in part because they’re no longer connected to the world beyond their estates. … Continue reading
Frances Harper: Bible Defense of Slavery
Take sackcloth of the darkest dye, And shroud the pulpits round! Servants of Him that cannot lie, Sit mourning on the ground. Let holy horror blanch each cheek, Pale every … Continue reading
Christine Skarbek: Countess Krystyna Skarbek — Resistance Personified
The most decorated woman of WWII was – without a doubt – a free-spirited Nazi Resistance fighter. Yet, Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek remains unheralded in her homeland, and nearly everywhere … Continue reading
Video: Matt Damon reads from Howard Zinn’s “The Problem is Civil Obedience”
. This performance was part of “The People Speak, Live!” at the Metro in Chicago, on January 31, 2012, produced by Voices of a People’s History in collaboration with Louder … Continue reading
Agnieszka Golec de Zavala: Why collective narcissists are so politically volatile
In 2007, a British school teacher in Sudan received a jail sentence under Sharia law because she allowed her pupils to name a classroom teddy-bear ‘Muhammad’. The day after the … Continue reading
Majid Naficy: Empty House
Every Wednesday since Mother’s death Four sisters get together In their empty childhood home To share memories And make a plan for the house: Should they sell to developers For … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Self-Portrait as a Being of Sound and Motion on the Northern Edge of the Southern States
Driving to Winchester the other day Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments comes on the stereo as we head west into the sunset on 66 ready for the curve at the … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: I’m Done — A Declaration
Last week, a friend encouraged me to be patient with Trump supporters, to continue to dialogue with them. But how do we dialogue with people who view dialogue itself as … Continue reading
