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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan: Beware the Republican Plot to Steal the 2024 Election

Republicans are mounting an all-out assault on the election process that journalist Ari Berman refers to as a “five-alarm fire for democracy.”

September 3, 2024 · 11 Comments

Scott Silsbe: Two Poems

That was the summer of the unrelenting wildflower smoke.

September 3, 2024 · 3 Comments

George Yancy: The Violent “Othering” of Palestinians

Anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and political racism overlap in othering of Palestinians, says Palestinian scholar Yasmeen Daher.

September 2, 2024 · 1 Comment

Hiba Abu Nada: I Grant You Refuge

I grant you refuge in knowing
that the dust will clear,
and they who fell in love and died together
will one day laugh.

September 2, 2024 · 12 Comments

Video: The Blossom, by William Blake

Performed by Wienananda, a group of Sahaja yogis in Vienna.

September 1, 2024 · 7 Comments

Margo Berdeshevsky: After the Auguries…

Where are medicines for vengeances, where
are cures in what palm of whose open hand.

September 1, 2024 · 9 Comments

Marc Bekoff: Tasty Bacon or Fellow Being? The Paradox of How We Relate to the Intelligence and Emotions of Pigs

Every piece of bacon comes from a unique personality.

August 31, 2024 · 8 Comments

karla k. morton: Chow Chow

It could be a religion, this relish—
what’s left over,
fall’s last stand
before the death-breath of frost.

August 31, 2024 · 17 Comments

Lourdes Medrano: Who’s Helping Asylum Seekers?

Asylum seekers hoping to enter the U.S. are turning to grassroots organizations for information, safety, and dignity.

August 30, 2024 · 3 Comments

Reginald Shepherd: Hesitation Theory

I drift into the sound of wind,
how small my life must be
to fit into his palm like that, holly
leaf, bluejay feather, milkweed fluff

August 30, 2024 · 10 Comments

Jessica Corbett: Russia’s Foreign Minister Warns US That World War III Wouldn’t Be Confined to Europe

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday warned the United States that if the war in Ukraine escalates into a wider military conflict, a potential World War III would not be limited to battlefields in Europe.

August 29, 2024 · 1 Comment

Pablo Otavalo: Étude

On the outstretched arm of a pinwheel galaxy
and doomed to be free. Into the bonfire
the vanities, as into a cave
the light.

August 29, 2024 · 11 Comments

Paul Christensen: At Sea on the Queen Mary Two

In the decks above, life was throbbing and squirming in anticipation of  some event that would never come. Or if it came, would be so gradual as to be uneventful. The sea told me that.

August 28, 2024 · 6 Comments

Susan Kelly-DeWitt: Estate Sale

The day grew hot; the yard
held the heat until the late shade
gathered it. Deep in shadow
the ghosts convened

August 28, 2024 · 7 Comments

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