15 Words We Don’t Have In English That Describe Feelings We Have Every Day (And One We Do)
“Every now and then we experience emotions that defy easy description.”
Fox News Gets Earth Day Wrong Six Times In One Article
I am going to undress this sloppy sandwich condiment by condiment.
Remembering Occupy Wall Street: America’s Favorite ‘Terrorists’
There is a reason these terrorists are no longer obstructing commerce in your local financial district. Occupy Wall Street exposed a flaw in the American system, a system allegedly designed for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses “yearning to breathe free.”
100 Years Of Genocide, Or Why My Grandfather Didn’t Want To Be Armenian
“A single death is a tragedy,” Josef Stalin is supposed to have said. “A million is a statistic.”
Snowmageddon 2015: Why Global Warming Causes Blizzards
Between January 26 and January 28, “Winter Storm Juno,” as it has been dubbed in the media, dumped over 30 inches of snow over 54 locations in six states.
Unemployment In Your 20s: Oh, The Places You Won’t Go!
Keep the faith, true believers.
U.S. War Debt Is Over $2 Trillion, Obama Wants To Spend More, But Is That The Answer?
Every tank, round of munition, boot on the ground, drone, vehicle and death fails to justify two wars fought for too long with too much borrowed money.
Who Are The Koch Brothers?
As Rolling Stone so eloquently put it, “If the Koch brothers didn’t exist, the left would have to invent them.”
Millennials Are Not A Generation Of Thinkers
My generation only inhabits this world. We have not built it and we are too Balkanized to deconstruct it.
The Ordinariness Of Grief
To say that my father died would often send an adult in search of the chink in my armor, the loose thread, the thing that would unravel me in a puddle of mourning. But there is no chink, no thread, no visible scar. My grief is ordinary and well worn.