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The Mouth of the Wolf
Reflections from a roadside cemetery.
Editorials
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The Rule of the Gun
The finger on the trigger is more sacred than the life at the end of the barrel.
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“And It’s True We Are Immune…”
Reflections on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
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For What It’s Worth
Wandering the streets of San Francisco, browsing the city’s bookshelves, a writer reflects on twenty years of literary and artistic influence, navigating an increasingly unfamiliar landscape in New York City.
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The Great Glasgow COP-Out
In early November 2021, thousands of global environmental and climate justice activists gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for the 26th annual convention on climate change to demand for an energy transformation and the health of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
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Navel Gazing
An insight into America’s “culture wars” using the example of Dave Chappelle to highlight the extant and emerging fault lines of artistic freedom of expression and censorship.
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Squatch: A Big, Hairy, American Metaphor
In the redwood forests outside Santa Cruz, author Sidd Joag’s childhood curiosities are awakened when he meets cryptozoological archivist and founder of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum, Michael Rugg, who life’s work leaves him questioning the relevance of Bigfoot’s existence versus the value of celebrating intellectual curiosity.
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Blind Spots
While the pandemic’s impact on social, political, and economic structures has been unprecedented, the uncertainty, tension, and collapse that people face on a daily basis is not.
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Brazil set to take away Indigenous lands & rights
Sign the petition: “Protect the Amazon and Indigenous rights or face international boycott.”
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Why I am going on a hunger strike
The starving person must have some kind of demand. My demand is simple. I ask the state to “come out and fight.”
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Corky Lee: Memories of a Seeker
Corky Lee was a beloved community organizer, activist, and artist who worked tirelessly on behalf of Asian-American communities, using photography to document the wave of cultural pride that swept from New York to San Francisco.
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Gay Ancestry
Reading between the lines of history, the author finds queer kinship in the literature left behind by his gay ancestors.