The Gospel of Greed
From the Crusades to Jim Crow to today’s Christian Nationalist rallies, belief has been less about God than about power. Faith is invoked to sanctify wars, justify slavery, and sell...
Culture & Current
Culture & Current Posts
The Age of Fascism in America
America has crossed a line. What we are living through is not just incompetence, but the steady march of fascism disguised as faith and patriotism. From Trump’s own admission that...
A Country Afraid of Its Own Majority
It was never foreign enemies this country feared most. It was the majority itself — women demanding rights, workers demanding wages, communities demanding a voice. The tools of control have...
When Texas Shows Up: What These Texas Women Teach Us About Our Duty Right Now
Voting is more than a duty. It’s the promise that our stories, our voices, our communities matter. Barbara Jordan taught us that inclusion is justice. Ann Richards reminded us that...
When Losing Becomes Treason and Winning Becomes Revenge
America is staring at an inversion of its own history. After the Civil War, the Union stopped short of annihilating the South and chose fragile reconciliation instead of total victory....
When the World Turns on Its Neighbors
Nationalism is rising not just in America but across the globe, feeding on fear, purity myths, and selective outrage. From Britain to Japan, Australia to Spain, entire movements are turning...
Existence as Dissent
Existing in today’s America is itself an act of dissent. To live with truth, without agenda, is to resist ideologies that glorify harm or dehumanization. This essay explores how survival,...
The Disclaimer Nation
America has become the land of disclaimers. Don’t eat the pods. Don’t inject bleach. Don’t confuse Bath & Body Works lotion with lube. What should be obvious now needs a...
America’s Gaza Riviera: Erasure Disguised as Redevelopment
America is dangling $5,000 and a food voucher to push Palestinians off their land so it can be rebuilt into “smart cities” and luxury resorts. That isn’t peace, it’s profit...
Evidence of the Absurd: Kafka Would Have a Field Day
When a country starts acting like a bad satire, the punchline is survival. Evidence of the Absurd is a darkly funny, razor-edged look at the digitized circus we’re all trapped...
The Cost of Power Is Everything Human
This is not the unraveling of a nation. This is the afterparty of an empire that sold the house, burned the deed, and gave the keys to its creditors. What...
The Gospel of Disconnection
This isn’t just about politics or religion. It’s about a country so emotionally disconnected it can no longer tell the difference between conviction and cruelty. From the erasure of Black...
What We Choose Not to See
We are not watching history repeat, we are living inside its redesign. In this raw, urgent dispatch from the soul of a fractured nation, Tasha Monroe exposes the quiet violence...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner Tribute
A poetic dedication to the life and artistic legacy of Malcolm-Jamal Warner—from the lens of a fellow poet. This op-ed reflects on Warner’s lesser-known love for poetry, his quiet strength,...
Greed Is the Most Dangerous Thing on Earth
What happens when a nation sells off everything meant to hold it together? From privatized schools to collapsing public trust, this piece traces how greed poisons the well, not just...
Where Do You Go When the Whole Map Is Burning?
The country’s unraveling in real time. Again. Rights gone. Books banned. Bodies hunted. And they ask why we don’t leave. Truth is, we were built for this. We had no...
A Letter on the Choice Before Us
Why I still believe in us, even when the world doesn’t make it easy—and what it means to choose each other when the powerful choose otherwise. I’ve been sitting...
They Don’t Care If They Burn
They said it wouldn’t happen. That American “checks and balances” were too strong. But this week, the regime legalized the storm. The truth is: we weren’t all fooled. Many were...
Too Black, Too Loud, Too True: Why Democratic Leadership Fear Rep. Jasmine Crockett
They don’t fear her voice because it’s too loud. They fear it because it cuts through the performance. Because it names the things they’ve agreed never to say aloud. Rep....
Built to Erase: The Quiet Bias Hiding in Plain Sight
They say the algorithm doesn’t see race—but we’ve lived the shadowban. We’ve watched our words, faces, and voices drift quietly into the void while the loudest, safest whiteness gets magnified....