Glenn Daigon

Well, at least one good thing happened in the past week. Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At the time, she was in Iceland listening to the wind. Here is what she inspired me to post on Bluesky last week (the firs... See more

More than half the homes in east Omaha, Nebraska have unsafe lead levels . Police use violent dogs to target people of color. A Memphis nonprofit hospital, millions of dollars in the black, relentlessly hounding poor patients over unpaid bills . What do a... See more

Janeese4DC (CC BY 2.0) Janeese Lewis George at an event in D.C., October 2019. What do Washington, D.C.; New York City; and Seattle, Washington, all have in common? All three have football teams that have won the Super Bowl. All three cities are considere... See more

What do these three stories have in common? An eighty-three-year-old woman from Houston, Texas, who owed her homeowners association (HOA) $4,000, had her home seized by the HOA and sold for $5,000. A husband and wife, both longstanding officers of their H... See more

For more than half a century, Seymour “Sy” Hersh has maintained his reputation as one of the nation’s top investigative reporters through his landmark investigations of scandals such as the U.S. government’s 1968 My Lai massacre, the Nixon Administration’... See more