Gerald Fleming: On Ascension Thursday
Young prodigy. Has a way with words. Brings someone out of a coma. Preaches peace, rages against bankers, tries his hand at carpentry, sexy woman loves him, meets his friends for dinner every week, they drink wine, talk, he says smart things, then, random as the rest of us, he’s killed. Gets to ascend to heaven.
Baron Wormser: Era of Ill Will
It’s easier to be against something than to be for something, particularly since any ideal is bound to have flaws.
Desne A. Crossley: O Rosie Girl
it was one thing for a white man to bed a black woman, but unthinkable that he would marry her. And it was commonplace for a black woman to be forced to open her legs to her employer or his sons. But Martha married white and returned home with the man!
Baron Wormser: The System
Humankind never has been very aware of the consequences of their group actions, perhaps because large groups, in particular, are inherently thoughtless.
Video: Marina Abramović | History
Marina Abramović draws upon her upbringing in Communist Yugoslavia and offers insights into her artistic vision in collaboration with video artist Charles Atlas.
Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Hannah Hough: A Day in the Life of Parents Caring for a Child With Complex Medical Needs
As her parents see it, caring for Claire is part of the job of being parents and something they do gladly…
Bob Kunzinger: Moral Absolutism | Do Not Kill Children
Starvation is rampant and the conditions in Gaza have been called by Save the Children one of the “slowest, cruelest deaths” on record. It is a holocaust…
Jose Padua: Orange
Auntie Nellie was the first dead person I ever
saw and she was lying in her coffin in the church
in Orange, Virginia after spending her last years
in something like a dark mist…
Mike Vargo: Truck Drivers Who Hitchhike
I met my first hitchhiking truck driver one morning on a freeway near Columbus, Ohio.
Rebecca Gordon: Trump Showed Us Who He Is the First Time Around
Trump 2.0 Would Be Even Worse
Matthew J. Parker: You Be the Judge
Can sending a poor person to prison and fining him excessively also be construed as a violation of equal protection, especially when the rich can buy their voting rights back upon release?
Mike Vargo: Is There a Real Me?
Believing in a real self would be easier if the self were not so inconsistent.
Nina Padolf: Labels Do Not Define You
For first grade, I had to take a bus to a school designed for children with disabilities. I no longer attended my neighborhood school, instead, I was placed in a room with all the boys.
Rebecca Gordon: Banning What Matters
Public Libraries Under MAGA Threat
Vox Populi 