Browsing Category Essays

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  Essays

  Where You From

  The intersecting lives of immigrants and gentrifiers in Northeast Los Angeles.

  By Cheryl Klein
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  Essays

  America Needs a Network of Rebel Cities to Stand Up to Trump

  We must look to cities to protect civil liberties and build progressive alternatives from the bottom up.

  By Kate Shea Baird and Steve Hughes
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  Essays

  Foreign and Domestic

  "I told myself that it was important to show that those that served were not props for hate."

  By Drew Pham
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  Essays

  Patriotism: A Schooling (and Unschooling)

  Pledging allegiance, but to what?

  By Jessica Holmes
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  Columns

  Rhyme & Reason: Sign Language’s Anti-Authoritarian Streak

  Some subversive signing to celebrate President Pea-Brain's coronation.

  By Sara Nović
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  Essays

  It Happened Here

  But the fight has only just begun.

  By Travis Mushett
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  Essays

  For Art, If Not for Democracy

  "Would it be so bad, if art didn’t make us better citizens, and didn’t strengthen our democracy?"

  By Isaac Butler
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  Essays

  The Democratic Party Must Be Destroyed

  The Left's only hope? Hostile takeover.

  By Jamie Peck
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  Essays

  Accounting for Home

  "Home isn’t a place, but a method."

  By Matt Hartman
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  Essays

  The Music My Mother Brought Home For Me

  "But somehow, she recognized that I would need these songs, that they could give me something that she could not. And she was right."

  By Ilana Manaster
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  Essays

  Standing Still and Watching

  Nostalgia, anxiety, and hummingbird pins.

  By Cole Bubenik
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  Essays

  On the Foreskin Question

  Circumcision present. Circumcision past. Circumcision future?

  By Jordan Osserman