

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...


Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Aug 3, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 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
- Jun 14, 2020
- 17 min
Ventura at 4am / History as Oneself
April 4, 1968 – New York City As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love....


Austin Sun Staff
- May 28, 2020
- 0 min


Charlie Loving
- May 17, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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...


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...


Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
- Feb 14, 2020
- 7 min
Ventura at 4am / The Most Integrated Space in the U.S.A.
1: Some data A majority non-white U.S.A. is widely predicted in more or less a generation. That doesn’t mean someone in 2045 (my...


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...


Lizzie Widdicombe / The New Yorker
- Oct 29, 2019
- 2 min
Outside Sources / What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History?
When Donald Trump recently tweeted a dark warning of a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation” were he to be impeached, it was further...