Patricia A. Nugent: When Hillary Clinton announced that she’s again running for president, I cried.
I had also cried when I voted for her in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. I didn’t realize they were that close to the surface, but when I actually saw … Continue reading
Sarah Browning: I go for days
I go for days forgetting these pictures – bare brown bodies stained and curled on cement floors or cowering in a corner, the dog’s teeth more real than the man’s … Continue reading
Video: Kale and the Immune System
Kale or borecole is a vegetable with green or purple leaves, in which the central leaves do not form a head. It is believed to be closer to wild cabbage … Continue reading
Daniel Burston: What is Anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is an old and remarkably persistent form of ethnic and religious prejudice. Scholars have found strong evidence of anti-Semitic attitudes in Hellenistic and Roman authors up to three centuries … Continue reading
Sarah Browning: Cawing Down the Airwaves
. Hate pulls up a bar stool to watch the All-Star Game in city neighborhoods and on country roads all over the land. Hate roots for the American League. Hate … Continue reading
Laura Gottesdiener: A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt
The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit Unlike so many industrial innovations, the revolving door was not developed in Detroit. It took its first spin in Philadelphia in 1888, the brainchild of … Continue reading
Sandy Tolan: The Flute at the Checkpoint
The Everyday Politics of Confinement in Palestine The SUV slows as it approaches a military kiosk at a break in a dull gray wall. Inside, Ramzi Aburedwan, a Palestinian musician, … Continue reading
Sam Hamill: Who Will Stand With The Innocents?
Fifty years ago, I found myself in the war-ravaged former nation of Okinawa, where some of the fiercest battles of the Pacific War had taken place, and where I began … Continue reading
Video: Pete Seeger — 2013 Anti-fracking rally, Albany, New York
Musician, singer, songwriter, folklorist, labor activist, environmentalist, and peace advocate, Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was born in Patterson, New York, son of Charles and Constance … Continue reading
David R. Loy: Awakening in the Age of Climate Change
If Buddhism is to address the ecological crisis, it must clarify its essential message. Let me begin by emphasizing what most of us already know about climate change. First, it’s … Continue reading
Audio: Charlie Parker Reboppers perform “Billie’s Bounce”
The Charlie Parker Reboppers made this recording November 26, 1945 at WOR Studios on Broadway in New York City. Performers include Miles Davis on trumpet, Charlie Parker on alto sax, Dizzy … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Surrender, Panic, and Control
When I was living in Texas in the 70s, I read a book on lucid dreaming that offered a technology of participating in my dreams. I had always been a … Continue reading
Video: Gregory Pardlo reads “Palling Around”
Gregory Pardlo reads “Palling Around” from his collection Digest (Four Way Books) which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
Chris Hedges: Make the Rich Panic
As we saw in Baltimore, the corporate elites who hold absolute power react only when they become afraid. And they become afraid only when we take to the streets. It … Continue reading →