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Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement on Gaza

Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement on Gaza

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Impotence takes various forms.  Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza Strip with primeval cruelty, international impotence in the face of actions by the Israeli...

The Midsummer Economy: Going Downhill Slowly

The Midsummer Economy: Going Downhill Slowly

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s easy to look at the Trump administration and point to all the serious economic mistakes it is making. However, economic mistakes do not necessarily lead to a recession and certainly not to a crash, as some critics seem to expect....

Winning Hearts and Minds

Winning Hearts and Minds

Moral Monday, image by David Biesack. Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the...

Notes From a March

Notes From a March

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair And we will all be called as witnesses, each and every one, to stand before the eyes of God, and speak what was done. – Jerusalem, Paul Simon “Now you see what we’re up against!” said my mother when hearing that Robert F. Kennedy’s...

Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement on Gaza

Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement on Gaza

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Impotence takes various forms.  Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza Strip with primeval cruelty, international impotence in the face of actions by the Israeli...

The Midsummer Economy: Going Downhill Slowly

The Midsummer Economy: Going Downhill Slowly

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s easy to look at the Trump administration and point to all the serious economic mistakes it is making. However, economic mistakes do not necessarily lead to a recession and certainly not to a crash, as some critics seem to expect....

Winning Hearts and Minds

Winning Hearts and Minds

Moral Monday, image by David Biesack. Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the...

Solidarity and World Cinema Otherwise

Solidarity and World Cinema Otherwise

The word solidarity is much alive these days in the vocabulary and political actions of social movements. Solidarity is at work when people take to the streets to join Black Lives Matter in protesting police brutality; in women’s decision to cut their hair in the...