by Mitch Randall | Jan 30, 2026 | Opinion
The United States is trying to survive two ice storms this week. A major winter storm moved through much of the country, leaving behind heavy snow and ice from Arizona to Maine. Arctic temperatures settled in behind the front, sending thermometers near or below zero...
by Delaney Metcalf | Nov 19, 2025 | Opinion
The tables are set, and you’re sitting at one. Every day, in every room, we reenact the same quiet sorting: who belongs, who doesn’t, who gets welcomed, who gets ignored. It’s not just middle school lunchrooms anymore. It’s our churches, our neighborhoods, our social...
by Justin Cox | Nov 10, 2025 | Opinion
The first round of eggs goes in the hands of a man who helped me move the chicken coop into place. Up a hill. Smashing into low-hanging branches. Betwixt raised garden beds. A pilgrimage I hope to never make again. For his trouble, he received 12 boxes without...
by Michelle Wahila | Sep 23, 2025 | Opinion
I recently returned to France from a visit “home” to upstate New York, where my husband and I were born and raised. We spent time visiting with family and friends, and (like we do each year) immersing our kids in American culture, as it is their singular touchpoint of...
by Craig Nash | Apr 1, 2025 | Faith and Democracy|Opinion, Opinion
On Tuesday, March 25, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student from Turkey, was taken by masked plainclothes officers on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. She was on her way to meet friends to break her Ramadan fast. Ozturk’s lawyer has said she was not...
