Media failure is a huge part of what got us here, and they are continuing as usual to fail to communicate the bigger picture–as journalist and writer Rebecca Solnit sharply conveys in her latest piece on Ghost, "Please Shout Fire, This Theater Is Burning." Something I want
First, an update: it’s been a few weeks since I last wrote, and that is for a few reasons. Among other things, while I’m between jobs and no one is paying me to react quickly to the news, I’m choosing not to. During this time, I am
I wrote this piece shortly after the January 6th insurrection and published it on Medium in August 2021 (I've said it took 3 hours to write and 6 months to edit). Regrettably, I was right about the direction the country was heading in unless we made significant changes,
Along with so many of you, I have watched in dismay (but unfortunately not much surprise) as many Democrats in Congress, especially the Senate, have trotted out careful middle-of-the-road, politics-as-usual statements about Elon Musk's ongoing coup. One Democratic Senator reportedly said, "What do they want us to