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Politics·U.S. Inauguration Day by Gary Margolis By Gary Margolis. Today America looks to its greatest challenge: itself. Read More
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Politics·U.S. On Day One [AUDIO] by Gary Margolis By Gary Margolis. We have to move forward. Read More
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Politics·U.S. The Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC by Bruce Robinson By Bruce Robinson. Can this historic pool act as a mirror? Read More
Politics·U.S. Torch the Empty Fields by Mary Jo LoBello Jerome By Mary Jo LoBello Jerome. Sometimes we should let the year burn. Sometimes it's burned us already. Read More
Culture·Elections·U.S. Praise Odes (Three Poems) by Jeff Schiff By Jeff Schiff. Odes to the culture of conspiracy, tribalism, and hatred that propelled the modern American Trump voter. Read More
Elections·Politics·U.S. Love Notes and Dissent by Catherine Strayhall By Catherine Strayhall. Let our hope be a promise to do better than our histories. Read More
Politics·U.S. NONSENSE HOTLINE by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Tuesday spins, tipsy on its tilted axis. Read More