What’s Brunswick’s story? How do we understand this place? We know it, don’t we, as a place where people have come to live, work, raise families and play for decades, for centuries, for millennia. It’s a good place, one of the best. We tell stories of the places we settle in various ways. We write […]

Upon learning of the death last month of my hero and friend, the great social-justice activist and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, my thoughts turned to her 2007 Harper’s article, “Pathologies of Hope.” She opened with no punches pulled: “I hate hope. It was hammered into me constantly a few years ago when I was being treated […]

THE CONVERSATION — Ukraine has received a broad array of military supplies from the U.S. and other allies. Recently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an urgent plea specifically for additional air defense resources from the West in response to increased air attacks by Russia. To understand Zelenskyy’s emphasis on air defense, it’s important to look […]