Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Aug 11, 20205 min read
You Can't Go Home Again, Parts 1 & 2
Part One Crash. The statue of Robert E. Lee comes tumbling down. Sir Donald says “NO MORE! I’ll protect our history from mobs of ultra...
James BigBoy Medlin
Jun 29, 20203 min read
WHY NOT? / Nothing Happening, So Much Going On
(not a poem, just a prattle) ~ with apologies to Bob Wills and Asleep at the Wheel ~ Who's that guy with the red tie on? Some folks call...
Michael Ventura
Feb 20, 20204 min read
Ventura at 4am / Impressions - Democrats Debate in Las Vegas, February 19, 2020
Who did we see? A gay guy. Two New York Jews age 78. A no-nonsense hard-working Oklahoma woman and a no-nonsense hard-working Minnesota...
Tamim Ansary / Art by Dan Hubig
Jan 8, 20206 min read
World War III
The assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on orders from Donald Trump has many people asking: could this mark the beginning of...
Trilby Beresford & Abid Rahman / Hollywood
Jul 4, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / Mad Magazine to Effectively Shutter After 67 Years
The beloved satire publication will no longer be sold on newsstands after the August issue, and future editions will shift to previously...
Frank Browning
Apr 16, 20191 min read
Browning / Notre Dame, France’s Heart on Fire
The words speckled my screen just before sunset: Incendie à Notre Dame, Christophe typed, fresh out of a daily contractor meeting for an...
Greg Jaffe & Jenna Johnson / Washington Post
Mar 2, 20193 min read
Outside Sources / In America, talk turns to something not spoken of for 150 years: Civil war
At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred recently on...
John Naughton / theGuardian.com
Feb 23, 20193 min read
Outside Sources / 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalis
Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John...
James BigBoy Medlin / Art Dan Hubig
Jan 10, 20192 min read
WHY NOT? / Wall to Wall Nuttiness
By the time you read this the “Wall” controversy may have changed. Trump may have declared a National Emergency in order to detract from...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
Dec 4, 20188 min read
No Hiding Place - An Election Notebook
There’s no hiding place down here — traditional Gospel song November 3 I look up at a clock: In more or less eighty hours the polls will...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
Oct 18, 20186 min read
Ventura at 4am / The Politics Of Helplessness – Part II
They strewed white flowers of cowardice, as they passed… ~ Anne Spencer If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced...
David Talbot
Oct 16, 20183 min read
Talbot / San Francisco's Moral Failure
Three cheers -- hell, FOUR cheers -- for Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff for throwing his huge corporate and personal weight behind Prop. C,...
David Talbot
Sep 10, 20184 min read
Talbot / America ... 'Great' & Gray
I applaud the late John McCain's daughter Meghan for fighting through her tears as she delivered a eulogy at her father's funeral,...