This essay was previously published on Rebelle Society. Wild things happen in the summer fields. Wild flowers grow and ladybugs flitter and the sky burns bright blue. Today, scattered swells of white clouds loom in one California field nearly straight overhead. They do not block the sun, but their presence makes the sky appear even
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This essay was previously published on Rebelle Society. Outside, the fast-moving clouds are breaking as the soft morning light falls over the grass and trees and old courtyard buildings that line the street. I crack the window open for the first time in months and the embryonic spring air wafts in. It’s early, just after sunrise,
Published on Common Dreams (Jan. 24, 2017). As someone once said, a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts its boots on. In the 2016 presidential election, right-wing billionaire Donald Trump’s lies may have carried him as far as the White House, but with this past weekend’s global Women’s March on
As the Obama presidency draws to a close, I repost this early article on his political rise from the August-September 2008 issue of the South African magazine, Amandla! This review, co-written with my friend and collaborator Carl Finamore, focuses largely on Obama’s foreign policy views. One issue I further addressed last year in “Drones and the
My first introduction to Donald Trump as a public figure took place in the early 1990s. At the time I was working as an editor for a non-profit association in Chicago. Trump was already a well-known public figure, but not one I had paid much attention to. One day an editor I worked with came
