HARD CRACKERS

Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military – despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved. The new rules green-light recruits who have bipolar disorder, depression and issues with cutting – a […]

Roy Moore, Republican nominee to fill the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama vacated by Jeff Sessions, has been accused of sexually harassing teenage girls, including a fourteen-year-old. Moore is the founder and president of the Foundation for Moral Law. With the Vietnam War underway, Moore served in several posts as a military police officer, including Fort […]

by Bob Gerst So what have we here? There’s a scan (black with white squiggles) I made tonight of an insect of some kind that had fallen in our mail. There’s a slide from about 1970 something that, evidently, fell on the floor beneath the radiator that I discovered today when I was vacuuming the […]

Hard Crackers is honored to be hosting Marcus Rediker for a reading from his new book, The Fearless Benjamin Lay, and a discussion on Sunday, November 5th at 2 PM in Brooklyn, NY. Join Marcus and the east coast editors of Hard Crackers for the reading and discussion. Sunday, November 5, 2017 2pm – 4pm […]

by Zhandarka Kurti  Around this time last year, I met Mike, a black man in his mid 40s, in the offices of a non-profit organization working with formerly incarcerated people. Its offices are located in a four story building tucked under the elevated trains running through the South Bronx, two stores down from a MetroPCS […]

I get out of the cab and find myself in front of a large stone building resembling a foreign embassy, not unlike the ones you find in the upper east side of Manhattan. The words “Casa de Galicia” are etched on the top. I am confused. Is this the Spanish restaurant where I am supposed […]