Time is laughing at us in our pathetic little language worlds as it trundles ahead on wagon wheel and V6 engine.

It is the most capable, among us, of disturbing the enemy’s mood and his comfort

Every news feed item and broadcast want you to forget about the life and activity teeming there.

When I was younger I took the body for granted; it was just “there” and would always supply the same predictable access to the world. Because it was eternal, it could be abused more generously.

It was called the Parsley Massacre because the Dominican border guards would conduct a linguistic test of all dark-skinned people to see who was Haitian, asking the people to pronounce the word perejil (Spanish for parsley).

In the dominant U.S. political establishment prioritizing 'foreign' or global policy over domestic concerns is nearly sacrilegious, and that is a main reason why executive privilege on climate treaties gets buried or resurrected as political expediency allows.

He had a bad dad, or the Dr. Seuss economy of death.

Where class itself becomes a scientifically-legitimated predictor for social pathologies, it can also become a variable to deny these underclass subjects opportunity to that world.

In 1978 American artist Jeffrey Vallance sent one of his ties to dozens of government leaders with the request that they send back one of their own. By 1979, at least 47 had complied (though Pope John Paul II opted to send back a medal and an autographed picture).

In my foggy and feverish mental transportations I started wondering about the existence of my own mug shot.

A black music magnate pops out from a Star of David in an image that seems to slap Al Jolson across the face while simultaneously high-fiving him.

The seen and unseen controversy surrounding the Os Gêmeos mural in Boston.

The top five regrets of the dying will either crush your soul because you recognize yourself in the list, or will make you smile that you’re free and clear.

Every few years we get to play a part in choosing the national Daddy.