

Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Aug 11, 2020
- 5 min
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...


James BigBoy Medlin
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
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
- Feb 20, 2020
- 4 min
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...


Tamim Ansary / Art by Dan Hubig
- Jan 8, 2020
- 6 min
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...


Trilby Beresford & Abid Rahman / Hollywood
- Jul 4, 2019
- 2 min
Outside Sources / Mad Magazine to Effectively Shutter After 67 Years
The beloved satire publication will no longer be sold on newsstands after the August issue, and future editions will shift to previously...


Frank Browning
- Apr 16, 2019
- 1 min
Browning / Notre Dame, France’s Heart on Fire
The words speckled my screen just before sunset: Incendie à Notre Dame, Christophe typed, fresh out of a daily contractor meeting for an...
Greg Jaffe & Jenna Johnson / Washington Post
- Mar 2, 2019
- 3 min
Outside Sources / In America, talk turns to something not spoken of for 150 years: Civil war
At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred recently on...
John Naughton / theGuardian.com
- Feb 23, 2019
- 3 min
Outside Sources / 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalis
Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John...


James BigBoy Medlin / Art Dan Hubig
- Jan 10, 2019
- 2 min
WHY NOT? / Wall to Wall Nuttiness
By the time you read this the “Wall” controversy may have changed. Trump may have declared a National Emergency in order to detract from...


Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
- Dec 4, 2018
- 8 min
No Hiding Place - An Election Notebook
There’s no hiding place down here — traditional Gospel song November 3 I look up at a clock: In more or less eighty hours the polls will...


Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
- Oct 18, 2018
- 6 min
Ventura at 4am / The Politics Of Helplessness – Part II
They strewed white flowers of cowardice, as they passed… ~ Anne Spencer If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced...


David Talbot
- Oct 16, 2018
- 3 min
Talbot / San Francisco's Moral Failure
Three cheers -- hell, FOUR cheers -- for Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff for throwing his huge corporate and personal weight behind Prop. C,...


David Talbot
- Sep 10, 2018
- 4 min
Talbot / America ... 'Great' & Gray
I applaud the late John McCain's daughter Meghan for fighting through her tears as she delivered a eulogy at her father's funeral,...