Nan Levinson: A Democracy of Voices (If We Can Keep It)
Threats to Free Expression in the Trump Era
Mike Vargo and Eric Marchbein: Who Abandoned the Working Class?
This commentary on the election takes the form of a Q&A between two observers with firsthand knowledge of certain aspects. Freelance writer Mike Vargo grew up in a blue-collar family, … Continue reading
Baron Wormser: The Wand
Like many born in the years after World War Two, I spent a portion of my childhood watching Disney cartoons on television and in the movie theater. One thrilling aspect … Continue reading
Matthew Parker: Foot Soldier
As a junkie and petty thief, I often found myself caught like a foot soldier behind enemy lines in the war on drugs. And, like most street-level addicts, it was inevitable that I’d become a prisoner of war.
Julia Conley: Watchdog Launches ‘War Room’ to Monitor Trump’s Corruption
“Americans will know how the Trump administration and its allies are working for themselves, big corporations, and the wealthy, not the American people,” said Accountable.US.
Brett Wilkins: Trump Cabinet Picks So Far Decried as ‘Nightmare Fuel’
The good news is, we can win these types of fights. We helped drive out three Cabinet secretaries from office last time, and we can do that kind of thing again.
Sandy Solomon: Grief
I move back and forth
down the supermarket aisles,
the way I move back and forth
through grief’s famous stages.
Nina Padolf: In line at the food bank with my roommate a disabled vet in Pittsburgh
It’s our turn, they escort us around
each section as if we’re in prison
Baron Wormser: The Refusal
We take, rightly so, poets and writers as people who, in some way, shape, or form, are involved in praising the sheer energy of Being and, in that regard, are saying yes to the life force.
Madison Bannon: This activist group chat has been blocking a weapons shipment to Israel for weeks
There is an African proverb: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
Elizabeth Warren & Bernie Sanders respond to the 2024 election
We will continue to fight for each other.
David Adès: Our Griefs
When they were little and not yet anguish
we nurtured our griefs,
we coddled them,
said there, there, things will get better.
JULIA CONLEY: THE RESISTANCE STARTS NOW
“We’re more prepared than ever to block the disastrous Trump policies we know are coming,” said one climate group. As voters across the United States grappled on Wednesday with the … Continue reading
William Wenthe: Assembly
What moved us, perhaps, was something like
what moves the calling of these robins.
