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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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August 15, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: An Excerpt from Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention
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August 13, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: What A Bully Understands
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August 10, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: A Tired Sadness, a Fresh Rage
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August 8, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: This Humiliating Person
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August 6, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: A Certain Grasping Quality
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August 3, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: I Wasn’t Allowed In
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August 1, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Destroy, He Said
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July 30, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Bad for Democracy but Good for Business
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July 27, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Right to Write
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July 25, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Hundred Percent Doctrine
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July 23, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: How Can You Not See This?
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July 20, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: There Is No Such Place
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