An open letter to white women allies
When you think of the word “women,” be mindful of what that means to you
Baraboo is not the exception. It’s the rule.
In small town and rural America, is it enough to just survive, try and fly under the radar, and hope one day to escape?
America: The Reckoning
Our self-concept as individuals and Americans is a kind of rounding up; an agglomeration of knowledge and experience and perspective and, well, laziness. That’s how minds work.
A request, in anticipation of armchair quarterbacking about midterm outcomes
Ask yourself: what did I do?
My Introverted Outside Voice in the Key of Asian Minor
There is no redundancy in denouncing hate, violence, bigotry, racism, and corruption.
What the Jews in your life want you to know
We know you often tolerate us, without knowing us. But tolerance isn’t enough. Not in this world.
From The North, Looking In
US politics really aren’t about politics anymore. That’s been left in the dust, probably around the time the first picture hit the internet of a sobbing child in a cage. US politics has now become about morals and principles.
I didn’t punch Paul Ryan and all I got was this lousy autocracy
One minute I was a reluctant soccer mom, now I’m yelling at one of the most reviled figures in American politics.
Truths in an Emergency
As humans, we overestimate our own capability to control, perceive, and act. And that, in cases where it’s relatively clear that it is an emergency.