Brett Wilkins: What Have We Become? What We Have Always Been.
We are a nation that has, since its earliest days, stolen children from their parents. . Such was the case with the more than 100,000 Japanese men, women and children, … Continue reading
Pamela Uschuk: Three Poems About Borders
. CRACKING 100 Near the border, preschoolers worry about butterflies. How can they fly over the wall? Fifty feet tall, thick steel plates would sear delicate wings. And, lizards, Miss, … Continue reading
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko: Of Pee I Sing
Well get a whiff of you! Freshly minted money under your breath– that sweet smell of success– excess oozing from every pore– Wall Street offshore dripping from towers monuments the … Continue reading
Robert Okaji: Scarecrow Votes
I am no citizen, but here I reside in the fields among my dark friends. We’ve laughed together, but they will not miss me. One day I’ll vanish without ceremony, … Continue reading
Jenne’ Andrews: Donald Trump’s Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations
The unspeakable anguish which the rogue president is personally perpetrating on refugee children and parents on our southwestern border is only the most recent egregious and intolerable of his sins … Continue reading
Rev. Dr. Charles N. Davidson: A Summons to a Nationwide Citizens’ Mobilization to Free and Unite Migrant and Refugee Children and Families
The crucial moment has arrived amid the immigration crisis inflaming the nation—the time for citizens from cities, townships, and hamlets across the land to answer the clarion call to take … Continue reading
Ann Fisher-Wirth: Prayer
Let the mothers rush toward their babies and wrap their arms around them tight enough to hold back even the sea if it would harm them. Let the anguish … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Why does Trump keep acting against U.S. interests in foreign policy?
Why does Trump keep acting against U.S. interests in foreign policy? Stupidity? Narcissism? Or maybe it’s money from Russia and elsewhere. Let’s take a bird’s eye view at the foreign … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: America is Stuck in Trump Hog Day
Every day in Trumpland looks just like the day before, except it’s always worse. We wake up each morning and Trump is still in the White House. He piles lies upon … Continue reading
Allison Skinner: The slippery slope of dehumanizing language
Comparing people to animals seems to increasingly be a part of our political discourse. When Roseanne Barr tweeted that former White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett was the child of … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Coming Collapse
Mr. Fish / Truthdig . The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long … Continue reading
Nomi Prins: Donald Trump and the Next Big Crash
Making the Fed an instrument for disaster “As Trump stacks the deck in his favor, count on an economic impact that will be felt for years to come and could … Continue reading
Sarah Aziza: Worker Cooperatives Offer Real Alternatives to Trump’s Retrograde Economic Vision
. Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a … Continue reading
W.J. Astore: Jacinda for President!
Trump, America’s very stable genius, doing what he loves. My wife perceptively notes how the USA is sliding backwards. Racism has new vigor even as science is rejected, e.g. climate … Continue reading
