On a show where the hard-working, virtuous, “good” families are the lily-white Hortons and Bradys, and the criminal, selfish “bad” families are of a darker hue (the Greek-American Kiriakises and…
War on American Amnesia June 17, 1971 Statement from President Richard Nixon [Revised June 24, 2019] America’s public enemy number one in the United States is American Repression and Amnesia1.…
[Image by Alison James] Ted Cruz Is Sad About His Beard this morning. He’s more aware of the Internet than anyone thinks he is and this is not the meme…
As we head into the end of 2018 and the second year of the Trump administration, I still find it difficult to believe that he is at the helm of…
The Fakery of ‘Fake News’ I remember the days when we all got our news in the morning or evening at 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock or 11 o’clock from one…
[Image Credit: Tyler Scully] Where were you the day he resigned? We were in Cleveland. With so many allegations unfurling, some days felt precarious, as if hitting refresh one more…
What I know about grief, but what I choose to ignore until it becomes relevant, is that sometimes take a shower, brush your hair, put on make-up, get dressed become…
“The rats are everywhere,” the exterminator says, rolling up the blue sleeves on his overall. I tell him he doesn’t have to take off his shoes, but he quickly reprimands…
Newsha Tavakolian’s album, Look (2013), can be viewed as the culmination of the developmental process her photographic language had to undergo under the restrictive politics of Iran. The students’ uprising…
On May 9th, 2017, President Donald Trump fired F.B.I Director James Comey. This poem is an erasure cut directly from the President’s letter informing James Comey of his termination. —…
Dear Poets, Writers, Artists, Friends, and Allies: It’s spring in Georgia and unfortunately this means that our university system is once again under threat by the gun lobby. Last week…
While Little Rock artist and art teacher Laura Raborn generally focuses on figurative oil paintings, the weeks before the November 8th Presidential election impelled her to create collages incorporating Donald…
—by which I think you mean—you’ll correct me if I’m wrong—that the arts aren’t really, if we get down to it, necessary. With that, I’m inclined to agree. Neither is…