Issue 1: 1 Dec 2016

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Writers Resist Launches

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Beware a Kinder, Gentler American Fascism

By David L. Ulin Originally published by LitHub, November 16, 2016; used with permission of the author. Let me begin with an admission: I don’t know how to write about this. I’ve been trying since Wednesday morning, day after the election, when I awakened with what felt like the worst hangover in the universe—and without […]

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Male Bias

By Katherine D. Perry   Waiting five years to adopt a daughter, I had time to carefully consider the impact of male bias on foreign shores, where, when you can only have one, girls are left on the steps of schools and libraries, and if they survive, they might be sent away, to western countries, where […]

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Was it foolish to think so?

By Sara Marchant My husband’s birthday is November eighth. He takes the day off. We drive to Idyllwild for lunch. It is a windy day so we have the patio to ourselves until an elderly white lady with an elderly dog joins us. She greets the waiter by name and he greets the cranky old […]

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The President-Elect Speaks

By Marge Piercy   “You can always go to another state” to have your abortion just so long as you’re rich, have a nanny to watch your kids, can take off from your job, have a ride available or your own car, aren’t living at home or needing to hide the procedure. Yes affluent women […]

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Twenty Ways to Protect Our Democracy

By Timothy Snyder Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today. Do not obey […]

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White Privilege, This Is America

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