The Guillotine
A report from the scaffold, as Trump moves to purge the Justice Department of those he perceives as disloyal.
Journalism in Verse
Curriculum Redacted
From Black Wall Street to redlining, a writer studies the Black History
Next Among the Countless Gales
"These sessions sound like hope—hope I’ll need while other wings approach."
Near Midnight, December 2, 2016
By Fred Dodsworth. "It’s always about the money, the filthy lucre, mammon, the root of all evil."
How to Shoot a Sleeping Bear
By Bonnie Rae Walker. Congress has rolled back the Obama law prohibiting the murder of bears and wolves in Alaskan wildlife refuges.
Where Hurricanes Hit Hardest and Leave the Deepest Wells
By Kathy Gibbons. The U.S. intentionally flooded a Houston neighborhood and now the lawsuits are flooding in.
While Everything Falls Apart, Imagine How You’ll Explain to Your Son Why You Had to Leave Graduate School
By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. The GOP tax reform bill would devastate most graduate students.
So Many Dead [AUDIO]
By Norma Smith. In the aftermath of a major shooting, how do we bury so many dead?
Even Here [AUDIO]
By Paul Bone. An American poet writes about how gun violence is everywhere.
Melania in China
By Pesach Rotem. In which Melania contemplates her life with Donald on top of a very hard wall.
My father is concerned
By Megan Merchant. "I tell him the nearest gun store is 2.3 miles from where my son is erasing a mistake."
