13 May, 2023
Lost Souls with Nukes
Lost Souls with Nukes by Robert C. Koehler 945 words More mass killings. More bloody “normal” — not just in...
13 May, 2023
10 Dec, 2022
DACA and the politics of cruelty
It wasn’t long ago that we awoke to images and stories of families separated at the border, of migrant children locked into dirty, crowded, chain-link pens. For many Americans, this was an alarming introduction to the politics of cruelty that have played out in different periods of American immigration history, but with particular force in the past few years.
15 Oct, 2022
Democracy is an act of moral imagination
Shortly before he died, Congressmember and human rights activist John Lewis wrote a farewell to his fellow citizens, declaring: “Democracy is not a state.
25 Feb, 2021
Windmills: the new scapegoat
The cornerstone of every social structure is its belief system, and those who control and benefit the most from the system have one primary job:
23 Feb, 2021
The Good, The Bad and the Profound
January 29th marked the day the United States of America rejoined the Paris Climate Accords and is back in the global fight against the climate chaos...
20 May, 2020
Rethinking public safety: Trust vs. force
““Guns aren’t just a danger in and of themselves,” writes Noah Berlatsky at Quartz. “They enable a policing philosophy built...
9 Nov, 2018
Activists Looking Beyond Midterm Elections
“Since Donald Trump’s selection as president two years ago, a growing movement of citizens has been fighting back at what...
16 Oct, 2018
Intentional or Incompetence—Voter Suppression Where We Live
“On October 15th, 2018 early voting in Georgia started. I arrived at my polling place at 1:56 p.m. and completed...