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 […]
So what have we here?
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 Event: Sunday, November 5, 2017, Brooklyn
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 […]
Cocaine, Kanye West and Shitty Jobs
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 […]
Date Night in Astoria, Queens
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 […]
Why He Did It
by John Garvey The authorities and the media sometimes seem more annoyed and frustrated at Stephen Paddock because they can’t figure out why he did it than they are about him killing 58 people and wounding hundreds. More precisely, they are annoyed and frustrated because they can’t come up with a story about why he […]