Sitemap - 2025 - Words For the Wise
Deadly Israeli attack on Iran's Evin Prison kills 71 but mainstream media bury the lede.
Human Evolution: A new face for the Denisovans?
Musical Moment: "Closer to You" by Dennis Quaid, featuring Bonnie Raitt
Musical Moment: "Slave Driver" by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
Musical Moment: The greatest version of one of Van Morrison's greatest songs.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the killing of nine members of a Charleston church.
Musical Moment: Brandee Younger Trio. You heard that right, jazz harp.
Is genocide good for the Jews?
Étienne-Émile Baulieu, "father" of the "abortion pill," dies at age 98. A profile.
Is the New York Times up to the job of reporting on the Democratic Party's future?
For Memorial Day: What I did in the war.
Musical Moment: Is it sacrilegious to cover a Stevie Nicks song and do it just as well?
On courage, cowardice, and civil disobedience at New York University.
Musical Moments: Trav’lin’ Light by Sonny Rollins and Ill Wind by Lee Morgan.
What does it mean to be a "gang member?" Some researchers actually want to know.
Musical Moment: “A Weaver of Dreams,” Sonny Rollins live in Holland.
Musical Moment: “Midnight in Harlem” by the Tedeschi Trucks Band
A judge's order to release Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is a victory for us all.
What Pope Francis really stood for, in his own words. [Updated]
Palm Sunday is a celebration, but also a remembrance of human hypocrisy.
Inside the mind of a radical activist judge.
Let's ask Canada to be the 51st state, the 52nd, the 53rd, and .............. the 63rd!
Will one good thing come out of Trump's presidency--the truth about Covid origins?
Why can't Gaza be "The Riviera of the Middle East" with Palestinians still there?
Music corner: Five minutes of transformative bliss with Van Morrison
Fuck nuance? Gaslighting in a time of genocide, let us count the ways.