Abby Zimet: Big Tough Weird LGBTQ-Bashing American Psycho Guy Wants Your Vote and What Could Go Wrong?
Whew. Latest proof the GOP is truly a malignant flaming clown car.
Video: Julia Watson | How to build a resilient future using ancient wisdom
In her global exploration of Indigenous design systems, architect Julia Watson researches enduring innovations that could help us counter the challenges of climate change.
Paul Laurence Dunbar: We Wear the Mask
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
Rebecca Gordon: Yes, We Have Home-Grown Fascists
Are Queer People the New Jews?
Matthew J. Parker: A Junkie By Any Other Name
I was a junkie for 20-odd years, ten of which I spent locked up – one fed beef and four (Arizona) state, all drug-related. To feed my habit, I chose to shoplift. A lot.
Carol Moldaw: Road Trip to Planned Parenthood
Only one hazmat-suited
protester outside the two-block buffer zone
shouldered a sign stapled to a plywood cross
that proclaimed a woman’s regret inevitable.
Baron Wormser: On Moral Grounds
One can be humbled into silence and one can be humbled into words. Or one can feel both—the silence that underlies the words.
Video: Exposing Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry
Seventeen chickens were just liberated from the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse in Sonoma County as hundreds of activists gathered outside to bear witness as part of the Animal Liberation Conference.
Valerie Segrest: The Many Lives of Water
Water has a living spirit and holds memories from the beginning of time.
Antoine Davis, Darrell Jackson: What Juneteenth looks like for prisoners
As Black men in prison, we live the tension between celebrating the abolition of slavery and struggling inside the system that replaced it.
Bernardine Watson: Freedom
the colored hotel was named for Crispus Attucks
a runaway slave, and the first man to die
for the America dream
Walt Whitman: On the Beach at Night
Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter
Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,
Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.
Anna Manchin: How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers
In essence, being a dad is as biological a phenomenon as being a mom.
Andrea Mazzarino: Americans in Pain
Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars
