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...
Jedediah Purdy / The New Yorker
Jun 12, 20205 min read
Outside Sources / Environmentalism's Racist History
Madison Grant (Yale College 1887, Columbia Law School) liked to be photographed with a fedora, or just his dauntingly long head, tilted...
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...
Jane Mayer / The New Yorker
Apr 15, 20203 min read
Outside Sources / How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the...
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
Oct 22, 201911 min read
Ventura at 4AM / Election 2020 – Some Notes / October 2019
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY —– Missing the Point The most important element of the 2020 election stood unnoticed in plain sight from start to...
the Lunch Guys
Aug 13, 201918 min read
The Lunch Guys / Art, Politics and Talibanism
The Lunch Guys are: L to R, Randy Alfred (editor & writer), Dan Hubig (artist), Jeffrey Klein (former editor of Mother Jones & West...
Rabbi Robin Podolsky / Jewish Journal
Jul 31, 20193 min read
Message to Immigrants: ‘You Aren’t Alone’
The rideshare dropped me off 15 minutes early at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Already, there were hundreds...