The antidote to politics as usual: A new kind of candidate.
As we head into Election Day and cap off the most expensive midterm election in U.S. history, Americans can be forgiven for feeling exhausted with “politics as usual.” Between the millions…
Nicaragua: Ortega/Murillo's tough exit from power
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and First Lady Rosario Murillo greet supporters during an event commemorating the 36th anniversary of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. AP Photo / Esteban Felix.All rights…
Almost Heaven
“Watch out!” I yelled, slamming the Land Rover’s brake pedal to the floor. Sam’s earlier caution flashed through my mind; the brakes hadn’t worked in years. He assured me the…
Rural Americans’ Struggles Against Factory Farm Pollution Find Traction In Court
As U.S. livestock farming becomes more industrial, it is changing rural life. Many people now live near concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) — large facilities that can house thousands of…
Paralympian Mallory Weggemann Challenges Donald Trump On His Ableist ‘Tough To Watch’ Comment
In April 2018, President Donald Trump welcomed roughly 200 U.S. Olympians and Paralympians from the Pyeongchang Winter Games to the White House. During an address to the athletes, he made a…
Multicultural Nationalism
Bristol, 2014. Flickr/ Evgeni. Some rights reserved.Tariq Modood, Bhikhu Parekh, Nasar Meer and Varun Uberoi and other scholars associated with the University of Bristol’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity…
How Voter-Gunknut Became 99.8% Jail
Not very long ago, Hoban Cordell moored on the beach at Voter-Gunknut and demanded to speak to the man in charge. The man in charge was a woman named Ani,…
“The Happiness Machine” by Ray Bradbury
To celebrate Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday we are reprinting “The Happiness Machine,” a story that was printed in his 1957 novel Dandelion Wine. This tale of discovery follows a determined…
Is the Nicaraguan mega-canal failure good news for indigenous communities?
Indigenous Women/Daniel Ortega. Beverly Goldberg.Nicaragua has been saturating the news lately following an outburst of violence and repression as a consequence of increasing social unrest in one of the poorest…
3 things women say that weaken the power of their words.
If we're to believe the self-help aisle of every '90s bookstore, men and women talk and act so differently because we're really from two opposing planets. While that's not factually accurate,…
2013 Fiction Contest Winner: ‘Wolf’
I wasn’t exactly happy with Jim wanting to change his name to Anatoly, but I tried to roll with it. Change is good in a relationship, right? That was the…
Subverting democracy without vote-rigging
Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan. Polling officers with army soldiers,deployed to polling stations. July 26, 2018. Rana Sajid Hussain/ Press Association. All rights reserved.Democracy is in the news in a Pakistan that has held…