Democracy Won’t Save Itself
It needs elders in the fight We have a gut-level understanding of what’s at stake Here’s what I see on the Zoom call as I prepare to do phone banking: A grid of faces, each in their little rectangles, all…
It needs elders in the fight We have a gut-level understanding of what’s at stake Here’s what I see on the Zoom call as I prepare to do phone banking: A grid of faces, each in their little rectangles, all…
I know I said that, but now’s the time to make an exception. A colleague once told me, “I’m not interested in politics.” I was taken aback. The man was well-educated, a history teacher who drilled his seventh-graders on the…
How about by being a citizen? You may not be interested in politics. But politics is interested in you That’s a version of a saying often attributed to Leon Trotsky, except with the word “war” replacing “politics.” I did a…
It’s lovely, but can I trust it? I know better than to believe what I see I write this as I’m sitting on the patio of our corner lot, gazing out at the linden trees and honey locusts that reach…
Can we talk? Psst. Over here It’s me, the spiky-haired liberal woman with the “SNFLAK” license plate (SNOWFLAKE: get it? See, not all of us libs take ourselves too seriously). Before you roll your eyes and turn away, let’s acknowledge…