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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Acceptance

Today grief is a long steady rain

September 30, 2024 · 15 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: America’s Natural Born Son

Is his name really Colt Gray? The name sounds like fiction. Glancingly, I looked at pictures and a white woman’s face comes into my mind with the age 53. A … Continue reading

September 30, 2024 · 6 Comments

Vanessa Chakour: My Innate Connection to Stolen Land

When people are distanced from land, they lose the intimate knowledge necessary to be effective stewards.

September 29, 2024 · 4 Comments

BBC: Kamala Harris’s Platform

Ms Harris released a detailed policy platform in early September offering voters a look at what a Harris-Walz administration might look like.

September 26, 2024 · 6 Comments

Christine Rhein: Miscarriage

I want to talk to you—Alito, Barrett,
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Thomas

September 25, 2024 · 15 Comments

Bill McKibben: To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano

We need to stand in awe for a moment before the scope of Earth’s long history. And then we need to get the hell to work.

September 23, 2024 · 11 Comments

Kathryn Levy: Three Poems

The geese are calling—this is
time to depart. They gather and sink and
soar toward somewhere.

September 22, 2024 · 14 Comments

Betsy Sholl: Helium

Oh, sweet dream,
stay with lovers afloat and doe-eyed donkeys,
don’t let the wind shift to newsclips of burnt
steeples, smoldering hospitals and schools.

September 21, 2024 · 16 Comments

Peter Yeung: The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador

The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.

September 18, 2024 · 3 Comments

Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi

Tired as if we were dead and lived again and suffered all kinds of pains and died again and again every day, in this hell of life, as if this is it, forever, as if this genocide would never end, and as if death is the only way out!

September 16, 2024 · 20 Comments

Anya Jabour: How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality

Katharine Bement Davis was able to show that it was normal for women to have sex for pleasure. 

September 14, 2024 · 5 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: A Personal Meditation on Growing Old In a Catastrophic Age

Passing the Torch while Broke

September 13, 2024 · 6 Comments

Roshni Ahmed: 23 Years After 9/11, Are We Any Safer?

True justice for the lives lost on 9/11 and during the U.S.’ war on terror would require us to put an end to overfunding violence and war.

September 12, 2024 · 2 Comments

Nidia Hernández: Refugiada | A refugee

the country in a foreign film
where I live now
I’m alone with the trees

September 11, 2024 · 4 Comments

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