Thursday, April 05, 2018

DC APRIL '68

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by Sally Zakariya Front pages of The Washington Post , April 5 (left) and April 6, 1968, during the riots following Martin Luther King,...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

ON THE BUS

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by Karen Greenbaum-Maya On the long bus-ride home, spring day in SoCal, we talked about Simon and Garfunkel until news broke into th...

CARAVAN OF HONDURANS

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by Ben White After days of walking from Mexico’s southern border, the caravan of hundreds of migrants that has drawn President Trump’s ...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

A MESSAGE FROM THE SECOND PLANET

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by Martin Elster A composite image of the planet Venus as seen by the Japanese probe Akatsuki. The clouds of Venus could have environme...
Monday, April 02, 2018

INTERSTITIUM

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by Harold Oberman With all that’s known about human anatomy, you wouldn’t expect doctors to discover a new body part in this day and ag...
Sunday, April 01, 2018

EASTER

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by Howard Winn Easter Island is critically vulnerable to rising ocean levels. . . . Many of the moai statues and nearly all of the ahu...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

SHIP OF FOOLS ON A CRUEL SEA

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by George Salamon It was later than I thought when I first believed you, /  Now I cannot share your laughter, Ship of Fool s,  —...
Friday, March 30, 2018

FOR PITY'S SAKE

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by Robert West Unharden, Lord, this heart and teach it, tear           by tear, till it contrives to pardon those who sneer    ...

PORN AND POLITICS

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by Alejandro Escudé Judith Bernstein, “President” (2017), acrylic and oil on canvas, 90 x 89 1/2 inches at the Paul Kasmin Gallery  via...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

RULING CLASS

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by George Held Left: Cameron Kasky, Photograph by Rhona Wise / AFP / Getty via The New Yorker , Feb. 23, 2018. Right: Bethany Garrison...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

THE TARIFF

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by Philip C. Kolin Image by Mark Sumner, Daily Kos . 
We live in a land of limits; expanses have been deleted 
from the perforate...
Monday, March 26, 2018

ME TOO WHO

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by Rebecca Street How can it be a little lass of nine Should feel such guilt and fear the threat of hell? Too young to name his...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

#ENOUGH HAIKU

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Sari Grandstaff is a high school librarian. Her work has appeared in TheNewVerse.News and other print and online journals. In March...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

FOR EMMA GONZALEZ

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by Anna M. Evans This girl looks like a younger Joan of Arc, whose mission, burning in her, was the spark that helped to light her...