Folk Culture

The word people keep using to describe Tim Walz—whether they mean it as insult or praise—is progressive. Since Kamala Harris...

The end of summer marks the beginning of freedom. You’re not really supposed to say this, but school isn’t just...

The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud...

This week, Joe Biden gave his first speech alongside Kamala Harris since announcing that he would not continue seeking reelection....

Sixty years ago, on August 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black former sharecropper from Sunflower County, Mississippi, who had...

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Most Americans on the left and the right agree that supporting families is a good idea, but they have different...

Last September, I got a message from my brother’s memorial Facebook group. The group chat had been created by my...

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