A Coming Hell on Earth?| 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
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
Donald Trump’s gleeful response to the show’s cancellation, and his suggestion that others will be “next up,” shows just how seriously some political figures take comedic critique.| Vox Populi
The Trump administration is setting the stage for election subversion. This power play poses a grave threat to the future of U.S. election infrastructure. It is also, in many respects, illegal.| Vox Populi
When those who seek to help resolve a conflict are captive to one side’s definitions and perspective, it’s a recipe for continued tension and ultimately disaster.| Vox Populi
…when Margaret Thatcher took voice- lowering lessons, she was told to speak as if she had a penis and a cold.| Vox Populi
If Mark Twain were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century versio…| Vox Populi
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.| Vox Populi
Smyrna, Delaware—Bald eagles descended to pose on the banks and boulders on the mudflats. Shorebirds bobbed in shallow pools. Great blue herons, great egrets, and snowy egrets snapped up fish along…| Vox Populi
Poetry is the remembrance and avowal of loss and is accordingly pushed aside.| Vox Populi
I am writing not to send you light, but to let you know you are not alone in the darkness. I am here, too, scribbling with no sight, no certainty| Vox Populi
“It was a massacre,” said one witness, adding that Israeli troops continued firing on people as they fled.| Vox Populi
A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.| Vox Populi
Let us be like my friend Rick’s grandma, who Rick remembers trotting alongside the car as his dad drove him and his brother down the long driveway from her house, tapping on a window until one of t…| Vox Populi
The Good and the Bad in Media Coverage Now| Vox Populi
Performed by Wienananda, a group of Sahaja yogis in Vienna.| Vox Populi