Hearts & Bones
Today, I am a placeholder for a vote that hasn't yet been cast.
8 Years of Journalism in Verse
Patriotism
A jubilant celebration and a fresh wound, all at once.
Heartsick, But Singing
Today, America needs us more than ever.
Love It or Leave It
By Bunkong Tuon. A message from the president travels to undefined borders.
A Complete and Total Catastrophe
By Anton Yakovlev. Trump told four Congresswomen to "go back" where they came from.
President’s 4th
By Michel Krug. In Trump's capital, Independence Day brings out tanks, Blue Angels, thousands of soldiers, Jumbotrons and weak reasoning.
Reparations
By Sandra Fees. Black Americans suffer a hushed biography of consequences. Reparations aim to fix that.
The Candidates I Want
By Tyler Friend. In the Democratic primary, there is a candidate for every mood.
Mr. Magoo Goes to the Trump Rally
By Carol Flake Chapman. The winner of our weekly poetry challenge takes satire to Disneyworld proportions.
Saved, 3 Baby Rabits
By Mark Williams. On a president who takes credit for resolving crises of his own invention.
It’s Currently Summer Here Where We Boil Our History
By Suzanne Swanson. "You’d like it here where the repetition of lies has a rhythm verging on lullaby."
Pantoum of the American Citizen
By Alejandro Escudé. Don McGahn testified that Trump tried to get Mueller fired. Now he's following Trump's order to resist a House
