Naomi Shihab Nye: Before I Was A Gazan
I was a boy
and my homework was missing,
paper with numbers on it,
stacked and lined
Brett Wilkins: UN to Warn Half a Million Gazans Facing ‘Catastrophic’ Food Insecurity
“The international community must apply relentless pressure to achieve a cease-fire and ensure sustained humanitarian access now,” said one advocate.
Matthew Carey Salyer: Carrier
Catholicschoolboys
fret as I once did like dappled stones
in their own fists. Scuffed wingtips. My ilk.
Georgia Jensen: Two Years After Dobbs, the Fight Goes On
The reproductive rights landscape is bleak, but there are still ways to fight for abortion access.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Toi Derricotte: My dad & sardines
i’ve made an altar called
The Altar for Healing the Father & Child
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
