Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Rope
By J. Todd Hawkins. A t-shirt sold at Walmart reads "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required."
Journalism in Verse
Chag Sameach, Y’all
By Jan Steckel. A poet celebrates a Hanukkah miracle as black women defeat Roy Moore in Alabama.
Origin of Words
By Amy Shaw. Trump's Center for Disease Control has banned seven words, including fetus, transgender, and diversity.
Dropped Stitch
By Megan Merchant. 600,000 American children are slated to lose their health insurance by next month.
Near Midnight, December 2, 2016
By Fred Dodsworth. "It’s always about the money, the filthy lucre, mammon, the root of all evil."
How to Shoot a Sleeping Bear
By Bonnie Rae Walker. Congress has rolled back the Obama law prohibiting the murder of bears and wolves in Alaskan wildlife refuges.
Where Hurricanes Hit Hardest and Leave the Deepest Wells
By Kathy Gibbons. The U.S. intentionally flooded a Houston neighborhood and now the lawsuits are flooding in.
While Everything Falls Apart, Imagine How You’ll Explain to Your Son Why You Had to Leave Graduate School
By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. The GOP tax reform bill would devastate most graduate students.
So Many Dead [AUDIO]
By Norma Smith. In the aftermath of a major shooting, how do we bury so many dead?
