A poet in a bad mood can ruin a reputation, as T.S. Eliot did for April when he […]
Author: John Kaufman
By Rumple Oxbridge , imaginary rhymer-in-residence at The Pacific Old King Coal was a polluted old soul And a […]
First published February 17, 2017 in The Capital Times If there is any consolation to be found in […]
By John Frederick Kaufman Fists and Flags “America first!” the president cried and raised his fist to […]
Talks are underway this week at the United Nations in New York on a possible global treaty to […]
Americans are today up in arms about legs. Specifically, whether or not it is appropriate for […]
How’s this for a grand generalization? The United States is not great at providing health care and really […]
By Rumple Oxbridge (imaginary imaginer at The Pacific) House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke Donald Trump “is not […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin did some major speaking out yesterday, saying he wants to offer “a […]
Surely it’s time to refute the great American myth our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. so believe in: an armed citizenry […]
To coin a phrase, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself and the Republican Party. […]
By John Frederick Kaufman What better poem to turn to than one recently discovered in England, a poem written […]
Since the building of really big walls for the good of the nation is now a popular idea among […]
Arguing against military retaliation/intervention is not appeasement or surrender; it is an attempt to limit violence everywhere . . .
One question not heard at last night’s Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee was anything about what we might call “Patriotgate.” This has […]
There are some things, like poetry, that cannot come easy if the thing is likely to last. Some advice: don’t enter a […]
We at the Wisconsin Institute for Insisting that Issue Ads are Not About Electing Anybody (WIII . . […]
“These are people who had been working hard for months, non-stop for the past week. They had not […]
When the American novelist/essayist Marilynne Robinson sat down with President Obama for a chat on matters literary, religious […]
[From the Institute of Policy Studies via Common Dreams] By Phyllis Bennis The destruction of the Doctors Without […]
Speaking of perpetual war, the NY Times is reporting that the U.S. war in Afghanistan, which, despite a […]
Yesterday, at a U.N. summit meeting on women’s rights hosted by, of all nations, China and its president, […]
