Iām planning to put my house on the market, which means I have to empty it out. No big deal, right? Go…
Basically, everyone knows that āmaking America great againā means making America racist again ā making racism the cultural norm again, unlocking the…
āDo you believe in them yet?ā Well, do you? Do I? I tear these words loose from my not-so-recent past ā indeed,…
“Some experts worry that, if the country went to war, many reserve units might be unable to deploy. A U.S. official who…
And now Trump consciousness purports to claim ā or reclaim ā control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one…
āI left you for God, Daddy.ā Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man ā…
Colonialism is hardly a thing of the past ā itās alive and vibrant as ever . . . from the Middle East…
āDriven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.ā…
The Democratic National Convention was happening here in Chicago ā my city ā and I sat frozen at my desk, staring at…
I stroke the unknown . . .Ā Bear with me as I finish my short walk. I was ambling through my neighborhood…
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