3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (641+ words) They’re shouting with absolute clarity that they know they can’t. They’re declaring it through their unceasing attempts to gerrymander millions of people’s voices out of the political process. They’re confessing as much through nonsensical word salad press conferences, condemning mythical…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (243+ words) The religion of my childhood drew a sharp, clear line between the saved and the damned. All that mattered was making sure someone found themselves on the better side of this line, and the Atheists, Humanists, and Democrats didn’t have…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (613+ words) To Our Grandparents, Parents, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins, and Older Siblings, We’re aware of what you think of us, either because you’ve told us during explosive, room-clearing conversations, over terse Cold War text exchanges, or in second-hand words passed through the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (592+ words) The exhaustion you feel right now?The heavy sadness that you can’t seem to shake?The sense of dread that hovers over you like a drone?The Resting WTF Face you walk around with every day?The scalding rage bubbling…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (795+ words) They are four, once-in-history, never-to-be-repeated human beings assassinated by empowered sociopaths who feel no accountability to the laws of this land or of any higher laws. And for each of these, there are thousands upon thousands of human beings whose…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (564+ words) In those internal autobiographies, we all tell ourselves that we’re one of the good ones, that our presence on this planet is yielding something beautiful, something that will leave this place better than when we arrived. In those stories, we…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (858+ words) Once it finds its way into the bloodstream, it gradually begins destroying a human being from the inside out. It does its work almost imperceptibly, driving out critical thinking, eradicating empathy, and hardening the heart. Since October 7, 1996, hundreds of millions…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (514+ words) As they fire off threatening texts, furiously tap out expletive-laden emails, and break into violent, performative histrionics on social media, I genuinely feel for them. They’re often getting some really bad news that blows up the story they’ve spent a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (639+ words) You see, it’s bad enough watching over a third of our nation becoming fully indoctrinated into a sycophantic cult of personality of the very worst kind of person, to see once reasonable people abandon any semblance of benevolence toward diverse…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (264+ words) What these disparate teachers have collectively helped open my eyes to is the vast expanse of sexual identity and expression; of the limitless ways in which human beings find their sense of self and their place in the world; how…...