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Video: Are we the last generation — or the first sustainable one?

Hannah Ritchie makes an evidence-based case for why we have a meaningful chance to solve global environmental problems for the first time in human history.

September 28, 2023 · Leave a comment

Stephen Haven: Iowa City, 1983

I remember best the cartography of each failed kindness…

September 27, 2023 · 2 Comments

Frank Sabatino, DC, PhD: Alzheimer’s Disease and Women

A plant-based diet has more than 50 times the antioxidant potential than any other eating plan on planet Earth and is the most successful way to eliminate the oxidative stress associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.

September 26, 2023 · 10 Comments

Judith R. Robinson: I Apologize

My own people, once stalwart as the stars, 
must now weep as we, their stunning progeny,
disappear like shadows 
into the cracked cement of sweet America

September 25, 2023 · 11 Comments

Robert Wrigley: A Similar While

The window-walloped chickadee that burst
from the hollow of her hands at her chest
startled her

September 24, 2023 · 10 Comments

Video: Frimas

When getting an abortion has once again become a criminal offense, Kara is confronted by a grim and brutal reality. Even though obvious dangers are at play, she seeks out the services of an illegal mobile abortion clinic.

September 23, 2023 · 7 Comments

A.K. Ramanujan: Self-Portrait

I resemble everyone
but myself

September 22, 2023 · 6 Comments

Abby Zimet: May Men Learn to Replace Bitterness and Violence with Love, Love, Love, Love

Birmingham churches rang their bells four times in tribute – in a synagogue, a shofar was blown – as hundreds of people black and white filled the church for a remembrance ceremony.

September 21, 2023 · 10 Comments

Baruch November: Two Poems

I would like to trade all
these bitter flavors
for a few holy sparks,
a bit of heavy
forgetting, a long kiss

September 20, 2023 · 4 Comments

Stan Cox: A Future Generation Shows Up Ahead of Schedule

The decision in favor of Montana’s youth is inspiring more lawsuits across the country.

September 19, 2023 · 8 Comments

Kathleen O’Toole: Her Grip

Now, her magnificent grasp
of language diminished, her hands
express all there is to say: hold me,
stay with me. Don’t leave me alone.

September 18, 2023 · 10 Comments

Chard deNiord: To the Muse

You wakened me to a dream of waking 
in which I approached you and sang 
your name.

September 17, 2023 · 2 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: Ban All Books But Mine

Ron DeSantis is doing a Model Press Conference with Florida high schoolers at P.S. 47, aka Our Lady of Stand Your Ground Middle School in Panacea.

September 16, 2023 · 9 Comments

William Wordsworth: Surprised by Joy

An elegy for Wordsworth’s daughter Catherine, who died in 1812, aged three.

September 15, 2023 · 5 Comments

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