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Michael Simms: Thinking of the Rapture at Castriota Metals and Recycling

frying pans fence posts
whole bags of rusty nails
even shoes hanging by
the metal aglets
at the tips of their laces

February 1, 2025 · 47 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Torture’s Legacy

If one administration can get away with confining detainees in coffinlike boxes and torturing them in myriad other ways, why shouldn’t a later one go unpunished for, to take but one example, putting migrant children in cages?

February 27, 2020 · 2 Comments

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