An American mourns the life of a close friend taken by one of the final US drone strikes of a senseless 20-year war
EZMERAI AHMADI: A PERSONAL UPDATE ON AFGHANISTAN
America
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, CASSANDRA
Human unwillingness to surmount the pandemic means it’s unlikely we will stop global warming
ONE AUTHOR’S BOSTON DIVE INTO AMERICA’S FIRST TRIAL
“From everything I’ve seen, it was the first … trial of the century.”
CONNECTING THE DOTS: FROM THE INDIAN FARMERS’ UPRISING TO THE EFFECT NEOLIBERALISM HAS HAD GLOBALLY
Is their struggle a global concern?
GOING ONLINE: NO REPLACEMENT FOR INTERACTION IN REAL TIME
New England Cultural Organizations Struggle to Survive in an Age of Social Distancing
DEATH THREAT AGAINST MASS POLITICIAN IS A BAD SIGN
Should violence replace political debate, democracy could end
RECLOSE AMERICA: DON’T FOLLOW FASCISTS IN THE SERVICE OF WALL ST TO YOUR GRAVES
Do back politicians calling for immediate national living wage checks and Medicare for All
INTERVIEW: CHASE WHITESIDE
Chase Whiteside is an American nonfiction filmmaker who recently co-directed, co-produced and co-edited his feature debut, América (2018), in collaboration with fellow director/producer/editor ...
THANKSGIVING FICTION: WE LIVE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE THE BAD GUYS WON
"Americans today live in a very real universe where the functional equivalent of Nazis—European colonists—committed genocide against Native American peoples..."
WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD
Uncle Will’s grandmother, my spouse’s great-grandmother, was born into slavery and died as a free woman at the age of 108. Sometime during Reconstruction (1863-1877), the great-grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate, as her brood scrape together enough money to keep it.
