Category Opinion

I became a one-way pen pal for democracy in 2018, writing letters and postcards to strangers in the lead-up to that year’s midterm elections. I had spent the months before marching for women, science, immigrants and Muslims. Then I decided…

It’s been 248 years since we started this country, America, the beautiful. Two-hundred forty eight years since those who came before us claimed it had become “necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands” and resolved that “whenever any…