Various writers
Feb 24, 201715 min read
Opinion / Facing Fascism
This is an ongoing compendium of articles concerning the election of 2016 and its aftermath: "But, despite populism’s seeming ubiquity,...
Interview & video by Steve Hyde & Marica
Feb 23, 20171 min read
Documenting Standing Rock
The deadline on Wednesday for activists protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline to leave their encampment on the banks...
Bill Bentley
Feb 19, 20179 min read
Bentley's Bandstand / February 2017
Bash & Pop, Anything Could Happen. Ten years ago there wouldn't have seemed like much chance of a Replacements reunion. Bandleader Paul...
Michael Castleman
Feb 19, 20173 min read
Yoga Good for Sex?
Five years ago, I posted a blog entry that described a small pilot study showing that after 12 weeks of yoga, men age 24 to 60 rated...
Tamim Ansary
Feb 17, 20179 min read
The Answer to Trump
When Ronald Reagan was running for re-election in 1984, most of the people I hung out with thought he would lose. He’d railed at the...
Words & Photographic Art by Danny “Double
Feb 16, 20174 min read
Wrestling with Donald Trump
The Democratic and Republican opponents of Donald “The Ringleader” Trump mistakenly believe they are involved in politics. In fact, they...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Feb 10, 20172 min read
The Best Two Weeks of My Life
It’s been the best two weeks of my life. Well, almost. …at least the best in quite a while. I found a bounce in my step and a real zest...
Jazmin Aminian & Michael Ventura
Feb 6, 20171 min read
Marching in Sacramento
The Sacramento edition of the Women's March. About 20,000. More than expected, and more than had ever demonstrated in Sacramento. Also:...
Bob Brown
Jan 31, 20172 min read
Fiction / Shortening Bread
“Tickets to the opera!” cried Randal Paxton, holding them up for all to see. His employees applauded and cheered, a reaction as forced...
Shelly Gehshan
Jan 24, 20174 min read
Women’s March on Washington—Thinking 2018
By now you’ve all seen the march pictures, the living rivers of people all over the world streaming down streets or standing, chanting,...
Photo Essay: Brian Sulkis
Jan 23, 20172 min read
Marching in the Bay Area
The crowd at the street car stop a few blocks from my house was excited. They were also numerous, maybe 30 individuals, when normally...
James BigBoy Medlin / Photos: Silver City Press
Jan 23, 20173 min read
Marching in Silver City: Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of Trump…
Silver City, New Mexico is the boyhood home of Billy The Kid. It has a population of 10,000. Fifteen years ago, when I asked my...
Story & Photos: Bob Simmons
Jan 23, 20172 min read
Marching in Austin
They say there were over 3,000,000 people who marched around the world for women and against Donald Trump on Saturday January 2, 2017. ...
Frank Browning & Steve Weissman
Jan 22, 20176 min read
Little David Peddles Trump’s Big Agenda
David Horowitz, the Trotskyist radical turned far-right entrepreneur, has just published an instant best-seller, Big Agenda: President...
Steve Weissman
Jan 11, 20173 min read
Opinion / From the Folks Who Brought You Iraq's WMDs, Vietnam, and the first Cold War: The Putin
Like TV's worst reality show, the Putin-Trump Show rolls on with a new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence...
James 'BigBoy' Medlin
Jan 10, 20172 min read
The Chair
It was not a snowy evening when I walked through the woods of Gila Forest, but there were miles to go before I sleep. And two trails did...