Rachel Hadas: Shopping Upstairs
Terror, stasis, glints of hope.
Ghosts of evils that came before,
plague and depression, civil war,
take on new life. So here we are.
Matthew Redmond: Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time
As the world continues to endure the ravages of COVID-19, another ghost of Dickinson steps into view.
Beth Peyton: Physically Distant and Socially Awkward
“You’re not wearing a mask,” you said to the salesclerk.
Lisa Arrastia: Teaching Under Covid
We need a radical plan for the public, even though care for all shouldn’t be such a radical notion.
Ari Honarvar: When Savoring a Pleasant Moment is a Radical Act
And then someone from another rooftop shouted a verse of Rumi’s poetry into the clear night air.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Republican lawmakers’ familiar blame game hangs COVID’s spread on young people
Damn Kids!
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Looming Second Wave of Covid-19
The pressure to re-open America is being pressed by the extreme right. It represents an open declaration that the pursuit of white happiness is an unalienable, unalterable right.
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Push to Relax COVID-19 Protections Exposes Age-Old Racial Wounds
Jared Kushner called America’s response to COVID-19, “a great success story.” And some states are moving to aggressively reopen malls, retail stores, restaurants, gyms, bowling alleys, parks, and hair parlors and even ordering people to go back to work.
Belle Chesler: This Empire Has No Clothes | In the Classroom That Zoom Built
The gravest and most immediate threat to our most vulnerable students was, and continues to be, hunger. If schools are closed, so is the critical infrastructure that helps keep our nation’s children fed.
Paul Christensen: The Book of Eternity
The dark has stairs and doors that have never been opened. Who knows where they lead, or what impenetrable paradoxes await the person who turns a knob and presses against the infinite ignorance we cower from?
Jane Ganahl, et al: Elder Women Speak about the Virus
Women over 60 share their coronavirus stories—from becoming a grandmother to dancing in the street.
Michelle Tarbox, M.D: I do not want to be a hero
I have fought for my patients,
but my patience wears thin.
Abby Zimet: What would Jesus do? (Not this)
Leading as ever by invaluable example, Mike Pence declined to wear a mask Tuesday as he toured Minnesota’s renowned Mayo Clinic. He did this though the CDC’s guidelines urge Americans to wear a mask in public to minimize the spread of COVID-19…
F. Douglas Stephenson: Some Medieval Towns Handled Plagues Better Than Trump’s Unequal, Rundown America
Even by historical standards, the U.S. president is an abysmal failure.
