1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (357+ words) Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy. Even during the best of times, media corporations often maximize profits by ruthlessly cutting corners and forcing their media workers to do more for less. Too often, costly services…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago   (580+ words) We cannot extract our way to a better future. Sharing and caring for the Earth is the only sane and healthy path forward. On a recent summer weekend, I found myself behind the wheel of a self-driving electric car, riding…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (855+ words) Paréa Lesbos, a community center for migrants and asylum seekers on the Greek coast, is a scenic refuge for those who have faced violence and chaos. by Giacomo Sini, Dario Antonelli Mohamed Ayash, a Palestinian migrant from Gaza who lives…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1002+ words) Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis Facebook Modern day unsolved deaths bear the hallmarks of nineteenth and twentieth century lynchings. Content warning: This article contains mentions of suicide. If I am ever found hanging from a tree, it was not…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (465+ words) Festival of Faiths (CC BY 2.0) As dangerous trends continue to intensify, we need his voice more than ever. Berry worked continually and until the very end of his life, often making the same points with the same urgency. His most…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (202+ words) The great poet, essayist, and fiction writer had a habit of repeating himself—but only because what he had to say was so important. I first met Wendell Berry in November 2019, at his farm in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (724+ words) Ben Aguilar/The Berry Center The legendary poet, farmer, and philosopher had vital lessons on transforming modern isolation. The great American farmer, philosopher, novelist, and poet Wendell Berry died Monday at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky. He was ninety-two....

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1251+ words) Illustration by Christopher Cruz We’re learning about the deleterious effects of solitary confinement on prisoners. How does it impact their families? Micaela Romero can clearly remember the first time her fiancé, Trevor Hendricks, called to tell her he was in…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (369+ words) by Zach D. Roberts Attendees at the March on Washington were not able to sit alongside the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool amid repairs caused by Trump’s renovation debacle. Last weekend, on the sixty-third anniversary of the March on Washington, thousands gathered…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (234+ words) The political reality is that she cannot plausibly do both. I can’t get excited, as some disabled folks seem to be, about Darline Graham, Republican of South Carolina, joining the United States Senate. She was likely referring to her work…...