“When we use Nazi imagery to describe Trump, nuance is lost.”
politics
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
I’m on a Boat, Y’all! (With Canada’s Hyper-Conservatives)
In The Walrus, Peter Norman boats for a week with followers of Canada’s fear-mongering conspiratorial conservative, Ezra Levant.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Donald Trump’s Worst Deal
Davidson does some deep reporting on a sketchy deal the Trump Organization oversaw in Azerbaijan. The building of the Trump Tower Baku is linked to notoriously corrupt oligarchs and financiers of terrorism.
Posted inBlog Post, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
What Does the Women’s Strike Mean?
Was the Women’s March “… the most successful protest in U.S. history”?
Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes, Video
16 Documentaries by Steve Bannon
“Cracking the code of the man who packs [Trump’s] ideological lunch.”
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Ban, the Wall: Bearing Witness
Which of our neighbors have been rounded up so far?
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Nonfiction
You’re Fired! The Unemployable Trump Administration
The firing of FBI Director James Comey is the latest high-profile firing by the administration. It’s also one of the most troubling.
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The Age of Rudeness
When society is as polarized and stratified as it is today, what does it take to imagine a definition of politeness and civility that transcends our differences?
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Don’t Call My Daughter Princess. Call Her Madam President.
Having taken feminist progress for granted, Sarah Stankorb must now reconcile her slow support of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential race with assuring her 4-year-old daughter she can be president someday.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Six Years Later, Over 400,000 Dead: The Graffiti Kids Who Sparked the Syrian War
Mark MacKinnon tells the story of Naief Abazid — who, at the urging of some older boys, graffitied a school wall on a lark in Daraa, Syria, at age 14. The “writing on the wall” enraged Syria’s Baathist dictatorship, and became the source of ignition in the Syrian war.