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Davis Price, Ilima-Lei MacFarlane: Climate Resilience Is Sacred

As a tidal wave of authoritarianism crashes across the U.S., it may seem as if nothing is sacred. But in these moments of uncertainty, it is the sacred to which we must return. 

April 16, 2025 · 1 Comment

Robert Wrigley: A Certain Man

For in the loop of this hell there’s a farcical rule,
that says when certain men find a certain man
of use—one that’s spiteful, vacant, and cruel —
he becomes for his purposes the perfect tool…

April 15, 2025 · 25 Comments

Olivia Rosane: Following Record-Breaking LA Rally, Sanders Tours Republican Districts

‘The American people…do not want huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the country paid for by massive cuts to Medicaid and other programs that working families rely on.’

April 15, 2025 · 6 Comments

Jeremy Brecher: What would a general strike in the US actually look like?

Calls for a general strike in the US are growing. It’s important to understand how to organize one, given their key role in overcoming tyrants around the world.

April 14, 2025 · 1 Comment

Antonia Alexandra Klimenko: Yes, I affirmed…

It was then that the light filtered through the curtain and passed through me as all things pass. Breathing out. Breathing in. Breathing out. Breathing in. Ah, Spring!

April 13, 2025 · 3 Comments

Baron Wormser: The Fury

Politics requires suppleness, the ability to compromise, to fit means to ends, to temper principles for the sake of reaching agreement, to turn burning moral issues into administrative questions, to convert moral enemies into amiable opponents, the duel into a debate.

April 13, 2025 · 4 Comments

Video: GOP Jesus

Right-wing conservative Christians who see this video may think it’s an attack on Christianity. They’re wrong. It’s an attack on hypocrisy.

April 12, 2025 · 11 Comments

Delmore Schwartz: The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me

A manifold honey to smear his face,
Clumsy and lumbering here and there,
The central ton of every place,
The hungry beating brutish one
In love with candy, anger, and sleep

April 11, 2025 · 2 Comments

Jessica Corbett:  Trump Proposal Called a ‘Death Sentence for Plants and Animals on the Brink of Extinction’

The malignant greed driving these policies threatens to greatly increase destruction of the natural world and turbocharge the extinction crisis.

April 10, 2025 · 9 Comments

Arun Gupta: 10 Organizing Principles for Defeating Trumpism 2.0

Here are the organizing lessons I learned from movements for worker organizing, immigrant rights, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, climate justice, Palestine solidarity, and abortion rights. These lessons may serve us well under Trump 2.0.

April 9, 2025 · 2 Comments

Clarence Lusane: Making America White Again

The Deafening Silence of Trump’s Black Supporters

April 8, 2025 · 5 Comments

Alexis Rhone Fancher: Kate’s Pantoum

My best friend shows up two days post mortem.
Her soul not yet departed, she sits on my bed.
The mattress gives with her weight; I feel her shadow.
When I reach for her, she’s gone.

April 7, 2025 · 12 Comments

Abby Zimet: A Disaster Of Idiocy | So This Penguin Came Up To Me

Several tariff targets are in fact remote outcroppings of ice and rock populated by no humans but many freeloading penguins and seals, who thank God won’t be “looting and pillaging” us any more.

April 6, 2025 · 10 Comments

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Song of a Second April

Hepaticas that pleased you so
Are here again, and butterflies.

April 4, 2025 · 15 Comments

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