A Coming Hell on Earth?| Vox Populi
Take my hand. Let us walk together, even with war raging, with the sea rising, with the oriole’s winter home yielding to chainsaw and bulldozer. With so many songs being left unsung, let us sing.| Vox Populi
"Trump is threatening to go to war with an American city," notes Gov. Pritzer "This is not normal."| Vox Populi
Yes, here is the late style of fire. Here is the burning and the beauty of the thing engulfed. Later I will not lack for poetry and my wife and I will scorch the sheets.| Vox Populi
After years reporting from post-authoritarian states, I now see the same patterns in my own backyard—where justice has collapsed, truth is suppressed, and power no longer answers to the people.| Vox Populi
I woke in the dark and watched light rise up behind the trees, pale gray to a backlit lemon yellow turning gold and unlikely blue, the colors blossoming| Vox Populi
They feared the olive trees — the trees that know, more than anyone, who the true owners of this land are.| Vox Populi