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...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Aug 3, 20203 min read
You Can't Go Home Again, Part 3
John Lewis gave us more than his body. He gave his soul. As a late teen, around 1960, from the small town of Troy, Alabama, Lewis decided...
Michael Ventura
Jul 18, 20206 min read
Ventura at 4am / The Horrors in Portland are 'Legal'
Last night Jazmin showed me a feed from NPR about federal officers in unmarked vans cruising Portland, Oregon, and (her word)...
Curtis Milam / Philadelphia Inquirer
Jul 9, 20202 min read
OUTSIDE SOURCES / Thanks to the President
Since his election, Donald Trump has been a mirror, held up to us Americans and propelling us to ask: How did we get here? I am the son...
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
Jun 14, 202017 min read
Ventura at 4am / History as Oneself
April 4, 1968 – New York City As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love....
Austin Sun Staff
May 28, 20200 min read
Charlie Loving
May 17, 20201 min read
The Loving View
Charlie Loving is an artist, cartoonist, spelunker, authentic eccentric, Veteran, world traveler, and the former Sports Editor of the...
Fintan O’Toole / Irish Times
Apr 28, 20203 min read
Outside Sources / The World has Loved, hated and Envied the U.S. Now, for the First Time, We Pity It
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear...
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...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Feb 14, 20207 min read
Ventura at 4am / The Most Integrated Space in the U.S.A.
1: Some data A majority non-white U.S.A. is widely predicted in more or less a generation. That doesn’t mean someone in 2045 (my...
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...
Lizzie Widdicombe / The New Yorker
Oct 29, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History?
When Donald Trump recently tweeted a dark warning of a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation” were he to be impeached, it was further...
