Exhibit Q
America reckons with the most powerful conspiracy theory it’s ever seen. But it’s all been seen before.
Learning from Reality
It’s the worst the pandemic has ever been, I’m in one of the states with the worst numbers and the most resistance to public health measures, where education isn’t the highest priority even in the best of times, and I just signed up my last remaining virtual learner to return to in-person learning, effective yesterday. And I feel great–and terrified.
The Overlooked Laws of People and Sex
How anti-trans sentiment and sexism end up in the same bed, and take us all with them.
Month Ten
Depending on where you live, it’s been about nine months since the coronavirus pandemic first caught up to the United States.
Chill of December
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by the United States, December 8. Following a delay on account of her lawyers contracting COVID-19, she is now set to die January 12, 2021. If she is executed on that date, she will be the first female federal inmate executed in nearly seventy years, and the 55th woman executed since 1900.
What’s Going On
It’s been nearly fifty years since the release of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, the landmark album on which he set aside love songs to sing about social issues, such as war, poverty, racism, police brutality, and environmental destruction.
For Men Have Children Too
A boy’s act of criminal mischief ends up in small town news, and his father uses it to teach him a valuable lesson. A real-life November story by Mauve Maude.
Thinking of Thanks
This Melanie Tannenbaum article from Scientific American ruminates on what we, in theory, all know: that gratitude is good for us, all year round. This year, may we challenge ourselves to take in the lessons of gratitude by distance. Being apart can never again be a reason not to give thanks.
Thirteenth of March — Part Three
Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.
How about now?
It’s now been nearly three weeks since Election Day, and more than two weeks since the Presidential race was called for Joe Biden.