Neil M. Maher: Biden Needs to Go Big to Rebuild America
The Biden administration should take a page from FDR’s playbook and immediately create a new and improved CCC. The majority of Americans support such a move…
Jena Schwartz: Day 209
God pulls into a run-down motel and pays in cash. God wears a mask and walks slowly down the hallway and the one light bulb is flickering as he turns the key in the door.
Christine Fair: The Revenge of Farkhunda
The mullah falsely accused Farkhunda of burning a Quran. Those who overheard the allegation immediately decided that she must be killed. She was beaten with bats, stomped upon, and driven over by a car after which her body was dragged by a car and then immolated. Her real crime? She had the temerity as a woman to challenge superstitious practices propounded by ignorant male clerics.
Robert Frost: Reluctance
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
Rebecca Gordon: It’s Almost Twenty Years Since 9/11
Perhaps the horrors of 2020—the fires and hurricanes, Trump’s vicious attacks on democracy, the death, sickness, and economic dislocation caused by Covid-19—can force a real conversation about national security in 2021. Maybe this time we can finally ask whether trying to prop up a dying empire actually makes us—or indeed the world—any safer.
Olivia Pace: Policing keeps us safe? It’s a myth. Here’s why.
When you peel back the facade, police and military perpetuate violence on a personal and professional level.
Paul Buchheit: How Right-Wing Conservatives Have Laid Waste to America for 50 Years
Thanks to a half century of insidious “trickle-down” philosophy—which astoundingly continues to be preached by many of the super-rich—inequality has stretched our nation nearly to the breaking point.
Abby Zimet: Nothing To See Here, Just Marauding Neo-Fascists Wearing Frocks
It seems things here in the apocalypse can always get weirder.
Lachmann, Schwartz and Young: Is a Green New Deal Planet Possible?
We may be at a tipping point for the defeat of fossil fuels.
Rachel Hadas: February 29, 2020
An extra day, an ordinary day,
predictable even in being extraordinary –
a bonus day in the old dispensation
we couldn’t guess was close to termination.
When did we start to sense the great subtraction?
Video: 10 ways to boost your immune system against COVID-19
Join Dr. Irminne Van Dyken as she shares how to boost your immune system against the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. We discuss practical ways to get your immune system up to snuff, making you more defensible against illness.
Derrick Z. Jackson: 2020 unmasked the truth about ‘all lives matter’
This is the year when we really learned that not even white lives matter to most white people.
Video: Bread and Roses | Joan Baez (lyrics included)
As we go marching, marching
We battle too for men
For they are women’s children
And we mother them again
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: Pittsburgh
When I was a child,
I used to hear of this faraway place
where my people came to drown
themselves in search of America.
