Field notes from the forced march toward a Gulag
The ND GOP’s Despicable Platform
Even after adopting anti-LGBTQ language in its platform for three successive election cycles, what the N.D. GOP truly regrets is the bad publicity.
Let’s Not Forget the Environmental & Climate Crises
It’s easy to lose track of the colossal damage Trump is doing to environmental protections and the impending devastation of climate change. But we can’t.
Capital Punishment Is Not About Justice
Vengeance is not a noble pursuit, but an evil that feeds back on its practitioners.
Reopening Should Not Be Part of School Planning Right Now
What states and school districts are actually developing right now are “Limit Illness and Death” plans. Unacceptable.
#NoDAPL!!!
CELEBRATE! Courage, righteousness and tenacity overcome wealth, greed and cronyism in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. For now.
Mask. There is No Other Correct Answer.
The world needs consensus-builders and compromise-finders, but not when it comes to wearing masks to overcome the coronavirus pandemic.
“One Nation, Under…” Duress
In the early morning hours of Independence Day 2020, I’ll be standing there, Old Glory in hand, wondering not which way is up, but how and when up became down.
I’m just walkin’ here.
It was deafening. It was exhilarating. It was pure. It was a necessary primal scream against the brutality visited upon people of color over centuries in the United States of America.