Hegseth's Holy War

His 2020 book is titled American Crusade. The final chapter is titled “Make the Crusade Great Again.”

Union of Hearts and Minds

''Descansen en Paz" (May they rest in peace) represents the six road workers -- all immigrants -- who plunged to their deaths when Baltimore's Key Bridge collapsed. Words and music by John McCutcheon. Video by Saul Schniderman.

10 Big Lessons on Ending the Fossil Fuel Era

Jonathan Watts and Fiona Harvey The Guardian
Hope is contagious and science is king: At world-first Santa Marta climate meeting, delegates say it was ‘euphoric’ to finally be focusing on concrete solutions

Are We Ever Truly Free To Make Decisions?

Lauren Claire Fong and Daniel Feuerriegel The Conversation
Rather than asking whether our choices are truly free, perhaps the better question is what it really means for a choice to be yours.

A Calling

Leslie Simon
Poet Leslie Simon gathers a cacophony of voices, some warlike, some not, surveying the present devastation.