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...
Jedediah Purdy / The New Yorker
- Jun 12, 2020
- 5 min
Outside Sources / Environmentalism's Racist History
Madison Grant (Yale College 1887, Columbia Law School) liked to be photographed with a fedora, or just his dauntingly long head, tilted...
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...
Jane Mayer / The New Yorker
- Apr 15, 2020
- 3 min
Outside Sources / How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the...
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
- Oct 22, 2019
- 11 min
Ventura at 4AM / Election 2020 – Some Notes / October 2019
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY —– Missing the Point The most important element of the 2020 election stood unnoticed in plain sight from start to...
the Lunch Guys
- Aug 13, 2019
- 18 min
The Lunch Guys / Art, Politics and Talibanism
The Lunch Guys are: L to R, Randy Alfred (editor & writer), Dan Hubig (artist), Jeffrey Klein (former editor of Mother Jones & West...
Rabbi Robin Podolsky / Jewish Journal
- Jul 31, 2019
- 3 min
Message to Immigrants: ‘You Aren’t Alone’
The rideshare dropped me off 15 minutes early at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Already, there were hundreds...