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
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
Bad Dog licks killers’ bloody hands, leaps with joy for rapists, fawns at politicians’ crooked feet. “He’s an awful judge of character,” the owner tells kind-hearted strangers who scuttle past…| 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
More than offering an escape, fantasy worlds can also show what courage looks like when the odds are stacked against you.| Vox Populi
I don’t want to be back in love with Erica, driving to some quaint upstate town, windows down, in complete control of the tape deck and we’re both singing along as loud and as off key as we please…| 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
Always that moment when I wake up in the dark before dawn and the first birds| 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
We are still ripening into our bodies, still in the act of becoming. Rejoice in the day’s long sugar. Praise that big fat tomato of a sun.| 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
you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from the schools from the prisons from the war…| Vox Populi
I wouldn’t call you back—not to a body that would be unable to walk the mountains freely. Even though I miss you— even though the hole you left in me is vast—please— trust me.| Vox Populi
The foreman led me into a cavernous room that took up most of the ground floor, where three huge machines unspooled 16-ton rolls of tin plate into sheets to be turned into cans. The machines resemb…| Vox Populi
The Good and the Bad in Media Coverage Now| Vox Populi
“Imagine if federal worker unions and Democratic Party officials showed up at the plant gate of a company that was about to close its doors,” said one labor advocate. “Why aren…| Vox Populi
Performed by Wienananda, a group of Sahaja yogis in Vienna.| Vox Populi
