We’re sitting on the front veranda of a small house in the mountains, maybe 90 minutes’ drive from the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, whose beauty queen has just been crowned Miss Colombia. I know this because at around 2 one morning we’d been woken by explosions, and I’d thought the war had come to Bucaramanga […]
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Are You Ready For Some Football?
I recently did a track workout at a local park in my city of Newark, NJ. My running partner and I chose Weequahic Park instead of the one in our neighborhood because the slightly farther away park has a regulation 400m track, where the local one is some odd shorter distance that makes it harder […]
Hybrid Moments
On September 17th, 2022, I witnessed something long believed to be impossible: a reunion of “The Original Misfits,” founder, songwriter, and vocalist Glenn “Danzig” Anzalone, bassist Jerry “Only” Caiafa, and guitarist Paul “Doyle” Caiafa. Danzig and Only are well into their sixth decade, with Doyle close behind. They have played a handful of gigs since […]
“The Monster is Actually the Police”: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann
We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing in the United States. Hard Crackers: Your first book Meth Wars (NYU Press, 2016) deals with the role of […]
Roe Overturned
no mas, no more babysitting in the doctor’s house waiting for infection to clear before the d & c, the abortion. When I woke the nurse say, You punched him, you punched the doctor. After a week, I flew “home” – nyc. October, 1967 I had missed the March on the Pentagon and used it […]
Abortion Struggles Beyond Voting: Women’s Liberation, Reproductive Care, and Dual Power
At recent pro-choice demonstrations, we have been told that the only way to protect abortion is to vote for Democrats in November. Yet the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade under a Democratic president, house, and senate. The Democrats appear more interested in fundraising off of Roe and attacking grassroots activists than they do fighting […]