A Corner Room at the Y
Even now, after all these years, the sound of a train passing through town carries memories for me of our good friend Chester Milvey. I see him tucked away in…
Hostile environment: border guards and border guardees
Click:applications of nano satellites Hospital and housing administrators, 2013. Wikicommons. Some rights reserved.Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ policy is under scrutiny. The government is doing all it can to contain the…
After A Billboard Urged Liberals To Leave Texas, An Amarillo Resident Fought Back With Positivity
In mid-June, a picture of a billboard in Texas urging liberals to leave the state went viral. Located six miles out of Vega, Texas, on the I-40 Eastbound, the billboard…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Fox News for mocking her D.C. rent problem.
Last week, GOOD highlighted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ very real-life struggle to find housing in Washington, D.C. after becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She told The New York Times…
The crumbling architecture of arms control
Donald Trump meets Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Finland, July, 2018. Lehtikuva/Heikki Saukkomaa/Press Association. All rights reserved.At a political rally on Saturday 20 October President Trump announced that the US will…
The internet is rallying behind the cute new name for baby moons.
Can a moon have a moon? Sounds like the question a precocious kindergartner or a stoned college student may have pondered at some point in their lives. But it’s actually…
From Mexico to India: the need for new paradigms to eradicate gender based violence
Graffiti in Mexico City with the words 'No More Femicide'. Source: Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved.It is beyond comprehension that Mexico is not included in the rankings of the world…
How Will You Feel Then?
There is an old man teetering through the locker room, pedaling homemade DVDs and breathing like a Freightliner truck. He’s wearing mismatched tennis shoes, a plain white shirt and a…
Precariat spring: Spanish social movements get ready for a new cycle of mobilisation
Las Kellys pregonan mañana las fiestas de San Cayetano, August 2017. Wikicommons/ Diario de Madrid. Some rights reserved.After the enormous demonstrations led both by Catalan and Spanish nationalists some people…
The Great Berry Pie Cook-Off
The bright orange ‘#6’ designating space assigned to me was as easy to spot as the manicured nails and made-up faces of a few of the other finalists. I unloaded…
“High Life” by Harrison Rhodes
Harrison Rhodes was a novelist, travel book author, and noted playwright from Cleveland. His story “High Life” follows a European king caught up in a love square attempting to balance…
Superhero dad had the best comeback when a troll called his 6-year-old daughter a lesbian.
Times are hard right now but let’s not give up hope, because real superheroes live among us!!!!! Like this adorable little 6-year-old girl who dressed up as Thor for Halloween:…