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."
A RipRap Along the Rivers
By Jane Yolen. D.C.'s historic Black headstones were dumped in a faraway river. But injustice doesn't wash away that easily.
The Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC
By Bruce Robinson. Can this historic pool act as a mirror?
Torch the Empty Fields
By Mary Jo LoBello Jerome. Sometimes we should let the year burn. Sometimes it's burned us already.
Praise Odes (Three Poems)
By Jeff Schiff. Odes to the culture of conspiracy, tribalism, and hatred that propelled the modern American Trump voter.
Love Notes and Dissent
By Catherine Strayhall. Let our hope be a promise to do better than our histories.
Dear Virginia
By Kim Harvey. Monuments to Robert E. Lee are at the epicenter of Black Lives Matter protests in Virginia.
Cartography of the Caribbean [AUDIO]
By Susana Praver-Perez. Puerto Ricans have survived colonialism, hurricanes and blackouts. Will earthquakes break what remains?
