āNationā equals identity. Iām an American! Hurray! Itās almost embarrassing to confess this, but yeah, thatās me (or used to be me),…
This is the first sentence of a column I cannot write . . . of a āwarā I cannot win. Thereās just…
From The Guardian: āThe missile hit during the schoolās morning session. In Iran, the school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, so…
And here I am, an American, staring at the border again . . . and slowly coming to realize the paradox of…
Letās put ICE and, indeed, war itself āthe smugly violent certainty of militarism ā into the largest perspective possible. I suggest this…
In the Donald Trump era ā praise be! ā so much is possible that previously no one had ever even imagined. For…
āKill them all!ā You have a problem with that? What are you, some kind of unmanly wimp? Pete Hegseth spits in your…
I sit here at my desk, looking out the window ā and see someone walking through the parking lot. This is the…
āThen they came for me . . .ā I can only begin here, at the emotional knifepoint of the ongoing ICE news. ICE…
Words fail me ā but theyāre all I have, or so it seems as I sit here at a table in my…
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