December 18, 2025
Cover Story
Editorial Board
In a moment when suffering is normalized and poverty is treated as a personal failure rather than a policy choice, books insist on humanity.
It has been a hard year. A loud year. A year marked by cruelty dressed up as policy and indifference framed as realism. Which is precisely…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Thus, they have to live a life filled with hypocrisies and facades, participating in sham marriages while sheltering, disguising, and obscuring their sexuality, denouncing their fellows, and practicing self-hatred.
Numerous members of the online MAGA-verse seem to be at intense war with one another on various fronts. From politics to religion to supporting or opposing…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
So sure, go ahead. Kill the penny if you must. But don’t act like this is about economics. This is about ego-nomics.
This ludicrous Penny Purge of 2025 - hailed as some bold, courageous act - comes to you courtesy of a man currently juggling more indictments than…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
His ritual burning and burying of the confederate flag every Memorial Day was an example of the artist engaged in protest. But he did not leave it there.
Of the many people we lost in 2022, one whose passing flew under the radar was multimedia artist, mathematician, Afrofuturist, writer, producer and activist John Sims,…
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