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Waiting in Line to Donate Blood After a Mass Shooting

Published on August 9, 2019 in Gun Violence/U.S. by Andrew Posner

By Andrew Posner. How does so much bounty go to rot time after time after time?

Published on August 8, 2019 in Gun Violence/U.S. by Marina Stevenson

By Marina Stevenson. Garlic cloves, like gun rights, must be broken to let the healing begin.

Published on August 8, 2019 in Gun Violence/U.S. by Mary Ann Honaker

By Mary Ann Honaker. For survivors of the latest mass shootings, this is a news cycle that will never stop.

Published on August 5, 2019 in Gun Violence/U.S. by Megan Merchant

By Megan Merchant. “We are calling this piece ‘249 mass shootings in 2019’. A title in-progress.”

Published on July 26, 2019 in Impeachment/Politics/U.S. by Miriam Jacobs

By Miriam C. Jacobs. A found poem from Hans Christian Andersen fairytales for the Trump voters enticed by an empty promise.

Published on July 18, 2019 in Immigration/Politics/U.S. by Bunkong Tuon

By Bunkong Tuon. A message from the president travels to undefined borders.

Published on July 17, 2019 in Immigration/Politics/U.S. by Anton Yakovlev

By Anton Yakovlev. Trump told four Congresswomen to “go back” where they came from.

Published on July 16, 2019 in Immigration/U.S. by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

By Angela O’Donnell. Songs for the women, men and children held at the border.

Published on July 2, 2019 in Immigration/U.S. by Yvonne Daley

By Yvonne Daley. On Trump’s own immigrant history amidst uproar over a father and daughter drowned in the Rio Grande.

Published on June 27, 2019 in Immigration/U.S. by Jasmine Marshall Armstrong

By Jasmine Marshall Armstrong. A father and infant daughter drowned crossing the Rio Grande. The photo of their bodies goes viral.