Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash   Contraindications: The Game   by Mark Levy Contributing Columnist                  I thought of a new game. I call it Contraindications. Here’s how you play it: I list one or more possible adverse side effects of taking...

Catherine Box/Education

    As The Bell Rings   by Catherine Box On the one-year anniversary of the Inauguration of the 45th President, I watched the clock tick to zero on the government shutdown stopgap measure. It seems fitting that a year of turbulence ends with paralysis....

Daniel Dragomirescu/Essay

      The Death of the Gold Digger   by Daniel Dragomirescu I liked to go to the cinema even before I started going to school, and until I was twelve or thirteen I had already seen various movies. The film “The Magnificent Seven”, which was shown...
Henry A. Giroux/Commentary

Henry A. Giroux/Commentary

Photo by geralt (Pixabay) President Donald Trump   The Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump   By Henry A. Giroux  Contributing Editor *** In the age of Trump, history neither informs the present nor haunts it with repressed memories of the past. It simply...
Greg Stewart/Around New York

Greg Stewart/Around New York

    January Jazz: What’s Hot When You’re Coming in From the Cold   by Greg Stewart Illustrations by Lidia Moroz Jazz. This large, amorphous, flexible, strange, constructed, improvisational, musical animal breathes life into New York City...