“I promise not to do this to Greenland!” Donald Trump joked in a tweet featuring a photoshopped image […]
Category Archive: The Wide, Wide World
Perspectives on the political scene, public discourse, and matters of policy that are making the world around us.
It’s hard to love, and hard to be loved. Romantic love in particular is famously hard. This Valentine’s […]
Excerpted from Briallen Hopper’s new book of essays, Hard to Love, out February 5, 2019. Order here or, less […]
In 1860, Herman Melville, 40 and with all of his published novels behind him, took a trip to […]
“Read this,” the tweet says. “Our government is inflicting unnecessary, potentially lifelong trauma upon little children. This one […]
In the 1970s, Shulamith Firestone wrote: “the end goal of feminist revolution must be […] not just the […]
“I am a girl, and I love another girl!” M.D. writes to the Lakeland Ledger, “However, I am […]
At the 2017 Women’s March in Madison, Wisconsin, I carried a sign that read “I AM A WOMAN’S […]