Jessica Corbett: Post-Dobbs Infant Mortality Spike Shows ‘We Must Restore Abortion Rights’
“In the seven to 14 months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, we saw a 7% increase in infant mortality, and a 10% increase in those babies born with congenital anomalies.”
William Wenthe: Assembly
What moved us, perhaps, was something like
what moves the calling of these robins.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Uneasy Election Enthusiasm in Philadelphia
More than any other social condition, concentrated poverty erodes the cooperative networks on which democratic participation depends.
Sophie Cabot Black: Democracy Until
And to set fire before heading on
Is also to say it does not matter
Which part is played
But that it gets played.
Majid Naficy: Seven Poems During Trump
I read in Egyptian papyruses
That Truth and Falsehood were brothers.
One day Truth borrowed Falsehood’s dagger
But lost it by misfortune.
Charles Davidson | A Call to Confess: Christians on the Eve of the 2024 U.S. Election
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the 1930s German “Confessing Church” Speak to Us
Kristin Kanthak: How votes are counted in Pennsylvania
Changing numbers are a sign of transparency, not fraud, during an ongoing process.
Video: Michelle Obama Rallies for Harris in Kalamazoo
Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 26, 2024.
Bill Knott: The Closet
I shall find room enough here
By excluding myself; by excluding myself, I’ll grow.
Rachel Hadas: ‘Each bears his own ghosts’
How the classics speak to these days of fear, anger and presidential candidates stalking the land
Michael Simms: A Cowboy in the Chapel of Bones
Where I come from
it’s bad manners to speak of death
except in dead metaphors.
Steven Rosenfeld: Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies
Watching Trump work his crowds, I see a dangerously manipulative narcissist unleashing the demagogic spells that he learned from studying Hitler’s speeches–spells that he cannot control and that are capable of eroding the fabric of American democracy
Doralee Brooks: Three Poems
Carmen, the shop assistant, slender and kinetic as a twig in wind,
scrubs my hair. Says how she waxes herself, down there.
