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There Was No ‘Good’ Iraq War

Immigration is a Human Rights Issue

‘Green Book’ Misses Its Mark

Racist language is more than the N-word.

This is white as default position.

You are welcome, Hank!

Fear and Loathing in the White House

‘Lay Not Thy Hand’: The Death Penalty Post-Pittsburgh

https://medium.com/@newspoet41/the-sabbath-shooting-us-them-and-president-trump-d02603bf2bb8?source=

These are the connections we should be discussing.

The Sabbath Shooting: Us, Them, and President Trump

And there it is.

What exactly is your point?

That is what we call selective use of statistics.

Just Another Day in Post-Racial America

My two cents is the piece I wrote:

Poetry annotations

This is going to seem extreme or outrageous, but patriarchy’s female supporters can be likened to…

Even the Losers Get Lucky

Brett Kavanaugh: Privilege’s Last Stand?

Economic Inequality Is Baked In

Lost Ones: Sept. 11, 2001

Sunday Replay: Thoughts on Kneeling, the NFL and Race

Hiding Behind Anonymity

TRIUMPH OF THE WILL

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Rewriting Her Story: Receding into Dementia

My use of the phrase “dangerous and unhinged” did not refer to your larger criticism, but to your…

There Used To Be a Newspaper

The Politics of ‘But’

American politics has long been based on “defaults,” the notion that straight white, Christian men…

I’ve written before about the societal “default,” which in the West — in the United States in…

‘A Notice to All White Americans’

And they shouldn’t claim the mantle of liberal or progressive.

Keep your eyes on that painting

This is an accurate take on what we, as local journalists, do everyday.

Journalism in an Atmosphere of Hate

Janus Ruling Is Part of Attack on Labor

There Is Power In a Union

My own piece — one of several — is here.

There is a crisis, but it is one created by Trump and (to a lesser degree) Obama.

Monday Morning Replay: On Redefining Refugee

The Refugee Crisis and a Theory of Flight

Suspicious mind

North: A Short Story

This is a bit unhinged and dangerous. War-crimes? Arrests? You’re sounding like Trump.

Zero Tolerance, Even Less Humanity

It’s Complicated

Open Letter to U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)

Thanks!

Threading the Needle with Cake Shop Ruling

On Roseanne and the Dangers of Corporate Censorship

We don’t disagree.

Let Workers Speak — NFL Protest policy is Corporate Censorship

The Cost and Limits of Being Poor

The Logic of Thanos: Malthus, False Utilitarianism, and the Zero-Sum Immigration Debate

My two cents:

The Beyonce references.

This is the key point, I think.

Mean is not the right word, I think.

Childish Gambino’s America

The best way to respond is to add a link to my own piece on the same event.

My take: https://medium.com/@newspoet41/a-comedian-insults-someone-and-the-world-goes-mad-6d672e6683

A Comedian Insults Someone and the World Goes Mad

Williams Compressor in Local Crosshairs

Too Much of the Same Kind

Reason to Believe: Bruce Springsteen and his fans

Fighting Homelessness One Battle at a Time

Free College: The Time Has Come

Poverty is Systemic, and the Fix Needs to Be, Too

A poem on the Rev. Martin Luther King

In Defense of the Community College

Aiding Immigrants at the State Level

Some recent writing on guns

Let Them Lead

The Kids Are Alright: Debating #WalkOutWednesday

Breaking the reader down

Rebel Music

Beggars Can Be Choosers

The paranoid style and the gun debate

The unbearable whiteness of the gun debate

Hank Kalet’s mailing list

Another day, another shooting

Presidential Threats: Xenophobia Drives Trump’s Immigration Agenda, with Existential Costs to…

Go Where the Students Are

Why I Didn’t Watch the Super Bowl

Turkish Coffee: Centering in the Moment

Patreon, patrons, and my new chapbook

Notes on the State of he Union

Dystopias are us

The real Trump immigration agenda can be found in El Salvador

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor

Whose America?