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Sydney Lea: Black Marks

On this Sunday morning at the end of November, I’ve been walking the Snake Road, its tar still dry; our winter is predicted to be warm this year.

December 1, 2025 · 18 Comments

Marianne Dhenin: Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely

New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes

November 30, 2025 · 11 Comments

Kate Price: ‘Jeffrey Epstein is not unique’: What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking

These are seen as disposable children, not worthy of protections. And they have already been dehumanized within our culture prior to exploitation, whether it be through poverty, lack of educational or employment opportunities, or prior sexual violence.

November 29, 2025 · 5 Comments

The True Story of Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving story you know probably goes like this: English Pilgrims, seeking religious freedom, landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they found a rich land full of animals and were greeted … Continue reading

November 27, 2025 · 8 Comments

Derrick Z. Jackson: The Fight for Clean Water — Majesty or Madness

I came upon six great blue herons grabbing herring out of the water as gulls swooped down for the leftovers. The Charles is now its own wildlife refuge.

November 26, 2025 · 12 Comments

Mattea Kramer: How Trump Uses Our Fear of Antisemitism to Further His Fascist Agenda

An Unexpected Con to End Free Speech

November 25, 2025 · 8 Comments

Chris Hedges: America is a Banana Republic

Trump and his family have amassed more than $1.8 billion in cash and gifts from leveraging the presidency — while erecting tawdry monuments to themselves.

November 24, 2025 · 10 Comments

Barbara Hamby: Ode to Untoward Dreams

Have you ever dreamt you had sex with someone
you aren’t remotely interested in,
like a guy you work with or one of your husband’s friends

November 24, 2025 · 9 Comments

Wang Jiaxin: Two Poems

Walking down the scorching streets of Moscow,
Osip turned to Anna and said:
“I’m ready to die.”
Rimbaud said that every poem is the last.

November 23, 2025 · 17 Comments

Dr. Michael Greger: An Outrageous Assault | Pelvic Exams by Med Students on Anesthetized Women 

Medical students practice pelvic exams on anesthetized women without their consent and without their knowledge.

November 22, 2025 · 13 Comments

Patricia Spears Jones: The Devil’s Wife looks at America to understand the necessity of wordsmiths

Yes, the Devil is making quite a mess of America,
and here I am swabbing yet another wound and offering up unanswered prayers.
Our names are on fire.

November 22, 2025 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: ‘We Go As We Please’ | What the Fuck Is Wrong With Y’all?

The American Gestapo’s brutish, racist, unholy crusade rampages on.

November 21, 2025 · 11 Comments

Robinson Jeffers: Hurt Hawk

I’d sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk; but the great redtail
Had nothing left but unable misery
From the bones too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved.

November 21, 2025 · 20 Comments

Helen Benedict: Capitulation at Columbia

Fear and Loathing Under the New Rules

November 20, 2025 · 13 Comments

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