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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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July 18, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: This Isn’t It
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July 16, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Good Authority
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July 13, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Dropping the Ball
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July 11, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Wide World of Belonging
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July 9, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Celebrate the Ninth of July
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July 6, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: For the Girls
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July 4, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Trump’s Trojan Horse
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July 2, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: For My Granddaughters
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June 29, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Never Forget, Never Remember
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June 27, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Poison
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June 25, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Widening Gyre
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June 22, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: U.S. Building Blocks of the Border Crisis
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