“It feels like our legacy”: DC’s Anacostia neighborhood gets its first new bookstore in twenty years
As any indie bookseller will tell you, opening a new store can mean both thrills and chest-clutching anxiety. And every once in a while, when a community has been without… Read more »
The PEPpy Peeps of Bi-coastal Privilege Plot Their Own Undoing!
Much has been said in the liberal media about Republican gerrymandering of congressional districts. What has not been said, at least not as loudly, is that the Democratic Party does… Read more »
Buying caviar with food stamps
David Bowie came from another world. Or, at least, listening to his music seems to launch us far beyond the confines of this one. More terrestrially, it can transport us beyond the… Read more »
David Cay Johnston has been doing this for a long time
Recently, we’ve been covering the comings and goings of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston pretty extensively. And with good reason — Johnston is the author of The Making of Donald Trump,… Read more »
750 million sign call to action for global literacy
There are around 757 million people in the world who cannot read or write. Roughly that same number of people (as of today: 757,004,950) have signed a petition sponsored by… Read more »