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Enough With the Moral Absolutism
August 7, 2022

As I begin this essay, the Senate is on the verge of passing historic legislation to tackle the climate crisis, reduce prescription-drug prices, raise taxes on big corporations, and extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, among other things. (Update: the legislation […]

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The Danger of “Hot Takes”
August 5, 2022

While what happens on Twitter–the memes, the controversies–may not resonate with or represent the experiences of the general electorate, many of the trends are illustrative of, and often exacerbate, fundamental challenges to our democracy. Consider so-called Hot Takes, which are […]

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The Antidote to Despair
July 30, 2022

Of all the literal and figurative poisons floating around our world–the carbon emissions heating up the planet, mercury, microplastics; bigotry and hate; war and authoritarianism–the most dangerous is despair. For as soon as we succumb to hopelessness, we lose sight […]

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Don’t Burn it Down, Laugh it Up
July 15, 2022

Thursday, July 14, 2022, is a day that will live infamy. I was with my parents, enjoying an evening during which they got to watch our three-year-old son take a swim lesson, when I received the news alert I had […]

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Wounded
June 30, 2022

I found a cricket in my kitchen, wounded, on its back,
little legs flailing as if it could walk upside down. I heard..

no chirps, no yelps of pain, no cries for help;
I lacked the heart to crush him. Gently, I carried him

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Pro-Life My Foot
June 28, 2022

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade and left it to the states to decide whether a woman has autonomy over her body, it’s worth taking a peek under the hood of the “pro-life” viewpoint.

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Channel Rage into Change: On Gun Violence, Climate, and Reproductive Rights
June 25, 2022

I’ve written that everything is an everything story, by which I mean that, in a global economy that is hyper-connected–physically, via supply chains, and digitally, via the Internet–it is difficult to separate one issue from another. For instance, climate change […]

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Grasping the Hand of Whatever Reminds Me I’m Alive, I Dance
June 20, 2022

You needn’t believe in ghosts to dance with them. Just ask the Robin napping in the quiet of a broken fountain, drunk on jasmine and sugar. Ask drowsy Orion, who was up all night, or the Taiga, bent on its […]

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The Golden Rule
June 20, 2022

For most of us, when faced with a law or policy we don’t like, our options are to comply with it, or, failing to do so, risk fines, imprisonment, job-loss, and ostracism. But for the powerful, it’s very different: they can comply, sure, but they can also lobby to change the rules, bend them, or simply ignore them–and rarely face consequences.

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Love in Other Worlds: A Sonnet
June 4, 2022

To write love poems when this world’s a mess
is like, depending on your point of view,
finding jasmine on the moon—an excess
of joy where all is bleak—or dreams of blue
sky at night, of food in famine…

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