Remember the hit play The Vagina Monologues? If you ever saw the show in all its feminist glory — with Eve Ensler’s brilliant combination of audacity, insights, and triple orgasms — you more than likely first saw it in college. And you’re probably a woman. That was not the case…

Dear Kamala Harris An Open Letter to Kamala Harris, Attorney General of California, on her refusal to prosecute the policemen who murdered Alan Blueford and other youth of color across the state Dear Kamala, I know you’re from here. Born and raised in this town of sideshows and sidewalk cemeteries….

When Keystone XL’s top job recruiter comes to town, he reveals just what types of jobs the controversial oil pipeline would really create. Oil executives like to claim that the Keystone XL pipeline would create thousands of jobs. But in a project fueling so many environmental and health risks, only…

Every Monday night for the last 8 weeks, I’ve been listening to stories. Stories of pollution and poverty, Mother Earth and Mac Dre. Stories of Oakland, of the Philippines, of love and home and the struggle for ecological justice all over this crazy little planet we call Earth. All these…

  What does it mean to be Jewish? Rabbis and poets and the atheist uncles at my family’s Seder table have debated the question for generations. Forget the scholars and drunks, I say. The best answer I’ve ever heard came from a comedian. His name was Lenny Bruce. Our greatest…