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April 2019When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m beginning to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality.
Russell Brand
Featuring John Taylor Gatto, Olga García Echeverría, Katy Butler, and more.
April 2019I’m not saying that race is a natural division of human beings that can lead to unjust hierarchies. I’m saying that the very concept of race was invented to create and enforce such hierarchies.
By Mark LevitonApril 2019December 2018Everybody remembers the first time they were taught that part of the human race was Other. . . . It’s as though I told you that your left hand is not part of your body.
Toni Morrison
Featuring Tim Wise, Odetta, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and more.
December 2018A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration
By Elizabeth AlexanderDecember 2018White supremacy is not just Nazis marching in the street. In the U.S. it’s always been a part of the economic and social system.
By Mark LevitonDecember 2018Featuring Barbara Ehrenreich, Studs Terkel, David Budbill, and more.
November 2018October 2018Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.
Karen Armstrong
Our God is the God of the widow and the orphan and the stranger, a God who says, “If you harm them, their cries will reach me.”
By Laura Esther WolfsonOctober 2018Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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