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The Border as a ‘Weaponized’ Landscape By Katherine E. Standefer -
Your Revolution at Home: Radical Fossil Fuel Divestment
A new environmental ethos for this new era of climate crisis. -
The Long Shadow of the CIA at Guantánamo
Dissecting the U.S. government’s justification for indefinite detention. -
Choosing Love After Sandy Hook
A mother explains how she has reacted to her son’s murder after the Sandy Hook School shootings.
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Holocaust Humor By Shai Oster, From Moment -
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
An ethical guide to seafood. -
Social Justice: The New American Dream
Kurt Vonnegut urges us to rethink the American dream and become a family, taking care of each other as families do, and spend more money on schools, hospitals and Ferris wheels. -
The Haunting of Loon Lake Cemetery
Assessing the collateral damage when people and places are attached to ghostly legends.
Arts
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The Slow Death of Creativity in Sound
Without evolving creativity and changes, new music will become a lost art. -
The Summer of Dead Birds: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Ali Liebegott’s new book circles death like a buzzard. -
Old Hollywood’s Forgotten Filmmaker
Take a closer look at James Stuart Blackton, a revolutionary filmmaker in old Hollywood who has received little credit. -
The Nile Project: Bringing the River Basin Together and to the World
Think watershed, act local.
Community
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How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience
Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence. -
An Economy of False Profits
Our national allegiance to the monetary bottom line threatens to negate other measures of personal and communal wealth. What’s being sacrificed to the cult of money? -
Can Blockchain be Used to Achieve Racial Equity?
Achieve racial equity through checks and balances a blockchain network provides by connecting everyone as nodes while still providing anonymity. -
Stop Trying to Understand Neutrois
Julia Eff talks about the daily struggles of life as someone without a gender.
Mind And Body
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Growing Up Hippie
Maybe it was the earnest meditation practices or the homemade cardboard lunch box that caused me to rebel. As the adult daughter of flower children, I crave structure, tidiness, and lots of sugar.... -
Into the Rafters
Reflections on a football dream cut short. -
Football Helmets and Concussions
Take a look at the concussion epidemic plaguing football players. -
The Will-to-Live-Until Phenomenon
Sometimes, the human body fends off death for reasons we don’t yet fully understand.