Jessica Corbett: Child Mortality Rate 70 Percent Higher in U.S. Than in Other Rich Nations
Report renews concerns about access to firearms and national healthcare system. American kids are 70 percent more likely to die during childhood compared with children in other wealthy, democratic nations, … Continue reading
W.J. Astore: U.S. Politicians and their Love of the Military
James Madison. We need his wisdom more than ever.. If there’s one area of bipartisan agreement today, it’s politicians’ professed love of the U.S. military. Consider George W. Bush. He … Continue reading
Emily Dickinson: Because I could not stop for Death
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put … Continue reading
Sam Hamill: Coming to It
A midnight cup of sake, a strange solitude. Is this all I’ve become? Old and alone, bending over a poem written in loneliness by some old Chinese bag o’ bones … Continue reading
Frida Berrigan: “Do Kids Die, Mom?”
Facing the Future With Trepidation in the Age of Trump As a mother and an activist, here’s what I’ve concluded as 2018 begins: it’s getting harder and harder to think … Continue reading
Claudia Nolan: Heard at a Funeral
words were spoken, and underneath as though from distant ancestors the wail of yellow carnations impaled by long white pins on styrofoam hearts the rustling of roses an octave … Continue reading
David Korten: How to Restore Our Relationship to Earth
We must reduce our burden on Earth’s regenerative systems by approximately 40 percent. To have a viable human future on this overstressed planet, it is essential that we build a … Continue reading
Robert Gibb: After the Reading
White cups floating above the waters in their cut-glass vase, The tulips have finally opened, while beside her— Pittsburgh, winter—windows shimmer with freezing rain. It’s the morning after the … Continue reading
Sarah van Gelder: Feeling Burned Out? When We Gather, We Get Energized
If it feels like you and the people you know have no say over what happens in Washington, D.C., that’s not an illusion. Research shows that ordinary people have close … Continue reading
Sandy Solomon: Demonstration, Summer 1992
Serbian men outside her house, her cousins shot, her sister raped repeatedly: the woman from Kosovo told this story as she cupped a candle to shield its fuddled flame. Elbow … Continue reading
Video: Valley of White Birds
. This stunning animated film directed by Cloud Yang tells the story of a warrior who visits a mystical valley inhabited by magical birds. Wolf Smoke Studio is an animation … Continue reading
Judith Brice and Charles W. Brice: Two Winter Poems
. Today, Of White After ‘Early Spring Thaw’ by Di Brandt Today my bones shudder and shake— quake with the wanton cold of winter her snows of white … Continue reading
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett: Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now
In 1899, the economist Thorstein Veblen observed that silver spoons and corsets were markers of elite social position. In Veblen’s now famous treatise The Theory of the Leisure Class, he … Continue reading
