PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “What Shall We Tell the Children?”
The contributors to an upcoming volume of poetry, essays, and art on resistance offer advice to parents on talking to children in challenging times.
PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like”
A PEN World Voices panel on writing and democracy that highlighted the myth of meritocracy and the self-made man, and need for more inclusive media and stories.
A Government Falls
Thoughts on demonstrations that recently brought down the government in Slovakia and parallels to the student-led rally in Washington, D.C. for gun control.
Is Portugal a Model for Life Without Net Neutrality?
A discussion of why the recent image of a bundled mobile offering in Portugal is not a model for what will happen in the U.S. without #NetNeutrality.
Young People Rally for #NetNeutrality
Thursday December 7 saw nationwide rallies to protest Federal Communications Commission director Ajit Pai's promise to end Net Neutrality at the FCC's monthly meeting on December 14. Most of the…
Hey, Prince John!
The impact of the Robin Hood story, and the Disney movie that entertained generations, in light of government policy to rob the poor and pay the rich.
Shopping Mall Rules: The End of Net Neutrality
By the end of 2017, this blog and every other site on the internet will enter uncharted territory. Former telecommunications industry lobbyist Ajit Pai, appointed by the current administration, will…
Why We Need Historical Fiction
In the past two weeks, I've spoken at two events about my novel Gringolandia and my translation of the picture book Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World) --…
The Republic of Cruelty
With the revocation of DACA, The U.S. government has just precipitated a humanitarian crisis, and the whole world is watching.
Messages posted on the wall in the Fourteenth St. subway tunnel between Sixth and Seventh Aves.
We Have a Crisis
A timely new book on the U.S. Constitution and its flaws sheds light on our current national crisis and a President who has emboldened right-wing extremism.
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