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What the River Remembers
(Below is a rework of a piece I wrote several years ago about the border, Mexico, “Black Jack” Pershing, and politics, an earthy mix of incompatible…
Sep 27
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Mississippi Yearning
“The flower that smiles today, tomorrow dies; all that we wish to stay, tempts and then flies.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sep 21
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The Stunned Ones
On the night of April 4, 1968, Robert Kennedy stood on the back of a flatbed truck in Indianapolis, speaking to a crowd that hadn’t yet heard the news.
Sep 14
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The Way We Were
We put Scotty at first base because he was unable to really run.
Sep 7
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Trust and Us
America has become a country where children cannot trust their parents when they tell them they will be safe at school.
Aug 31
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To Look for America
"What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?
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Autocrats in Alaska
"Who can live with this consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?” - Allen Ginsberg, “The Fall of America: Poems of These States”
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The Texas Template
"Texas has a long tradition of expanding democracy, for whites, for landowners, for the wealthy, while systematically excluding everyone else.
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Banana Republicans
The idea was steeped in silly optimism.
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Another Man Without a Country
“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it.
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The Fires of Our Time
"The mountains, and the steady hills, the rivers, and the rocks, and all the everlasting broods that fill the landscape with a silent awe, dreams of…
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Everything is Political
There is probably nothing that calms a family more than a football metaphor after their child has disappeared, likely forever, into a catastrophic…
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