Balance
In San Francisco, manifest destiny meets Land's End.
Journalism in Verse
Donald Trump Meditating on Love
From the trenches of his trade war, it's the President as you've
The Guillotine
A report from the scaffold, as Trump moves to purge the Justice
The Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC
By Bruce Robinson. Can this historic pool act as a mirror?
Torch the Empty Fields
By Mary Jo LoBello Jerome. Sometimes we should let the year burn. Sometimes it's burned us already.
Praise Odes (Three Poems)
By Jeff Schiff. Odes to the culture of conspiracy, tribalism, and hatred that propelled the modern American Trump voter.
Love Notes and Dissent
By Catherine Strayhall. Let our hope be a promise to do better than our histories.
ALTAR/ALTER
By Jessica Granger. Fearing "where the margin / meets the marriage" in Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court.
Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
By Leila K. Norako. A president addresses Turtle Island.
There Was Smoke in the Sunrise
By Dion O'Reilly. "For years they’ve been warning us— black Cassandras of the power lines."
The American People [AUDIO]
By Gary Margolis. "When I hear you speak of the American People I ask myself what people you’re speaking about."
