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One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism
Since the 2016 election, reading the news each day can send even the most placid among us into a paralyzing apoplexia. We are enraged, we are bewildered, and then we get nothing done all day. We go to bed with teeth clenched, wake up, and it begins again.
But we have a solution. From now until the 2018 midterm elections — and likely beyond — we will be featuring essays by powerful voices, from poets and novelists to actors and activists, giving voice to their state of mind — and possibly yours, too.
And then, most crucially, these writers will offer one simple thing you can do that day to take action, to address those concerns, to feel a little less powerless. Maybe it’ll be an organization or charity they find worthy of your donation, a volunteer opportunity worth your time, or an issue that deserves greater awareness. Maybe it’ll be a simple commitment to vote this November. Whatever it is, we hope it will help remind all of us of the big and small things we can do to work toward justice and change.
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September 14, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Phone a Friend
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September 12, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Kindness and Clarity
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September 10, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: It’s Simple
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September 7, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: What Kind of World Is This?
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September 5, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Imagine If You Can the Death of the Prison House
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August 31, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: A Few Words in Defense of American Institutions (Which Is to Say, Us)
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August 29, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: More for More Than Me
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August 27, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: An Oath to All of Us
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August 24, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: On Us
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August 22, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Deplorable Within Us
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August 20, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Why I’ll Keep Protesting
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August 17, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Ordinary Hands
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