Creep of the Week: Betsy DeVos
School sux, amirite, guys? Pencils, books, teachers' dirty looks. Ugh. Who needs it? I mean, the very idea of public education funded by tax dollars sprang [...]
Positive Thoughts: A Sense of Community
By Jeff Berry Community is a word I often hear bandied about at various HIV meetings, conferences, and gatherings, but it's sometimes a loaded word that often [...]
Creep of the Week: Jeff Sessions
A long, long time ago, in 1986, Jeff Sessions was nominated to be a federal judge in Alabama. But the Senate Judiciary Committee was all, "Uh, no, you're way [...]
Mombian: Picking Up the Shards
By Dana Rudolph I made a cake on Nov. 8 to celebrate what I thought would be Hillary Clinton's election. For decoration, I melted sugar into sheets and broke [...]
Weathering the Storm
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith As I write this, it is late autumn. The weather, just recently still as warm as summertime, has turned cold, and the day was a rainy [...]
Parting Glances: Inaugural Sermon on the Mountebank
NOTE: The following well-known Sermon on the Mount — politically updated — is taken from the Theocratic New World Translation of the New Testament. It is [...]
ACLU's Moss Defiant, Committed to Fight After Election Delivers Trump
Kary Moss, Executive Director Edith Windsor was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court case, United States v. Windsor, which successfully overturned [...]
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Hey, so how is everybody doing today? Feeling optimistic about the future? If the target audience for this column was KKK members and fans, the answer would [...]
How Do We Find Hope in a Time of Fear and Recriminations?
Ligia (Romero-Balcarcel), who is my caseworker at the Lansing Area AIDS Network, told me as I first start discussing this speech to accept the Kaye McDuffie [...]
