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Baron Wormser: Greening

The contest between Trump and Biden represents an allegory come to life of the two forms of consciousness: one candidate who espouses a derisive and divisive let-it-rip individualism that is indifferent to, among other things, truth, and one candidate who has spent a lifetime ministering to the needs of the Corporate State.

June 23, 2024 · 3 Comments

Video: Hair Tie, Egg, Homework Books

As a model student in her elementary school, 11-year-old Lin Yuqi is assigned to give a speech about her family at the Parent’s Meeting tonight. But after Lin finds out that she shares the same secret with a mischievous classmate, she starts to have second thoughts.

June 22, 2024 · 3 Comments

Toi Derricotte: My dad & sardines

i’ve made an altar called
The Altar for Healing the Father & Child

June 21, 2024 · 7 Comments

John J. Berger: A National Climate Action Plan

Heat waves of exceptional severity and duration are now occurring simultaneously in many areas of the world.

June 21, 2024 · Leave a comment

Jason E. Ybarra: How Indigenous peoples are reclaiming their celebrations of the summer solstice − and using them to resist

In 1883, the U.S. government began a campaign to suppress the Sun dances, designating them as offenses for which penalties included imprisonment.

June 21, 2024 · 5 Comments

Heidi Gerard: Addiction Recovery Is Hard. Funding It Shouldn’t Be

I work with moms and kids on their recovery journey. Funding for centers like mine is woefully small compared to the need.

June 20, 2024 · Leave a comment

Elizabeth Henderson: The GOP’s Stalinesque Plan 2025 to Shape the Future of U.S. Food and Agriculture

The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation wants to rid the USDA of sustainability, climate change mitigation, and racial equity.

June 18, 2024 · 6 Comments

Joshua Frank: You Can’t Turn Back the Clock on Genocide

Israel has quickly become a pariah of its own making, something that never had to happen, and from which there may be no turning back.

June 17, 2024 · 8 Comments

Gary Belan: The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens the Nation’s Rivers

Leaving river protections to states doesn’t make sense when rivers cross state lines.

June 16, 2024 · 6 Comments

Michael Simms: Blowtorch Bob And Other Particulars Of My Politics

In 1970 I went to my first anti-war demonstration. I was sixteen and my cousin Michael Ashie (People introduced us as “This is my friend Michael and this is his … Continue reading

June 15, 2024 · 20 Comments

Larry Levis: Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside it

If the soul had a written history, nothing would have happened:
A bird would still be riding the back of a horse,
And the horse would go on grazing in a field

June 14, 2024 · 10 Comments

Brett Wilkins: News of Chomsky’s Ill Health Prompts Outpouring of Gratitude for ‘Lion of the Left’

“So many thousands of people have stories about how he has changed their lives,” said one admirer. “He certainly changed mine.”

June 14, 2024 · 4 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: What Did We Know?

Ignoring the clanging alarms, many media outlets continue to treat the 2024 election season as just another contest between two equally legitimate political parties.

June 13, 2024 · 7 Comments

Mandy Fessenden-Brauer: Distorted Dreams About Palestine

I wrote this seventeen years after I’d lived in Gaza, because people didn’t seem to understand when I tried to share what it was like to live there…

June 12, 2024 · 2 Comments

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