Keeping up with the Buttigiegs
November 15, 2021
On the campaign trail with Mayor Pete.
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Fresh Hell
November 12, 2021
My Big Fat Getty Wedding
As nominally the most powerful woman in the nation that is singularly responsible for cumulatively pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other, Nancy Pelosi recognizes the moral responsibility of the United States to, after decades of ...
Huma in Hillaryland
Clinton’s right-hand woman on the down side of power
Give Peace a Chance
November 11, 2021
Séverine Autesserre’s apologia for international peacebuilding.
Seeing Holes
November 10, 2021
What can account for Darrel Ellis’s historiographic exclusion?
This Land is Their Land
November 09, 2021
The billionaire class holds the planet for ransom
The Good, the Bad, and the GOP
A dream of democracy permanently deferred.
Fresh Hell
November 05, 2021
I’ve Had the Time of My Life
World leaders descended on Glasgow this week to assure the masses that they ab-so-lutely understand the severity of the climate crisis. Boris Johnson, taking the stage, adopted an appropriately grim tone: “Humanity has long since run down the ...
Trump’s Apprentice?
In France, TV talk-show provocateur Éric Zemmour eyes the presidency.
A Living Weapon in Your Hand
November 03, 2021
Diane di Prima's poetry combined revolutionary ideas and spiritual fervor.
When He Reaches His Solitude in Full
He closes the door, turns off the lightsexcept the hallway’s which leads to the fenceand lets him peek at the bougainvillea
and the branches of the sweet apple he planted last winter. Inside his room one candleby the window will do.
A smokey candle and its ...
Left Behind
November 02, 2021
The Build Back Better Act makes families a bargaining chip.