At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones....

For months, the mainstream media and pollsters claimed the nation would witness a blue Democratic wave on Nov. 3. According to these polls and predictions, the nation would oust President Donald Trump...

I have always considered my job to be one of the best a person can have. In fact, I get told this often when I am working, in this case, means terrifying little girls with pigtails and horrifying burly,...

“Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to describe white moderates in his “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” Many members of the African...

Editor's Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on Social Media. Read the first part here. “As long as social media companies profit from outrage, confusion, addiction and depression,...

As the country sits on pins and needles, simultaneously counting to 270, countless questions remain. The largest question, looming over all conversation about the election, is who will occupy the White...

Election Day was chaos. Election Day was worse than I expected.  On Nov. 3, I was a poll worker in a rural county in Pennsylvania. Not only was I a newbie at the job, but it was my first time voting...

For centuries, the Catholic Church has prohibited women from fully participating in the faith based on controlling patriarchal tradition and gendered power dynamics.  In 16th century England, in the...

An open letter to my community, as well as to the Northern Regional Police Department. If you love someone, you must make them conscious of the things they cannot or do not see. It goes without saying...

I’m still not so sure if it was musical theater or a film or a concert —or maybe something else entirely. But David Byrne’s “American Utopia” was profoundly moving. Featuring music from Byrne’s...

  We’re all familiar with that kid (or, apparently, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee?) in our high school civics class who so courteously reminds us that “actually, America isn’t a democracy. It’s a...