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A little less than two months before the 2024 election, I walked with 20 high school juniors and seniors through our community of Martindale-Brightwood, a predominantly Black neighborhood on the ...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/indiana-get-out-the-vote-high-schools/

Walking by the water, I heard a starling making a clicking sound in its throat. It was a thin bird, and a strange way to sing; there was something alien in each note – The post To Sing, S...

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Several rows of coiled razor wire drape the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Arizona. The Trump administration put them there in 2018. Later, when Biden took office, the mayor of Nogales asked...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/clinton-bush-obama-trump-biden-border-wall/

More than 400 people have died from heat-related illnesses in southern Nevada in 2024, the largest recorded number of heat-related deaths documented in the region in a single year. That's not the...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/nevada-voters-ground-zero-climate-change/

1. FATBERG There’s a golem growing in the sewers of Sidmouth. Under the salt-stung Esplanade and seaside cricket club, beneath the proper pints of The Anchor Inn. From excess, olid alchemy...

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Greetings from the belly of the election beast, Washington, D.C., where longtime residents like me live in our own political bubble. I mean, where else in the country is the White House correspon...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/politics-capitol-steps-troupe-comedy-laughing-matter/

In Wisconsin, more than 12 elections in the last 24 years have been won by less than 30,000 votes—a statistic that has become a talking point among politicians. In 2020, President Joe Biden won...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/wisconsin-youth-young-people-ballot-box/

Bad Doggy in the Dark This is a game for when the nights are longand mom needs a break. You turn out the lightsand roll newspaper into baseball bats.You close your eyes and scream and flail.No on...

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like the kid who knowshe’s a year too oldto sit on the mall Santa’s lap, waiting in line anyway,hedging his bets to make certain that new dirt bikeis under the tree. Which is to say, I am awa...

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My wife and I live in a rural farming area in Western Pennsylvania. We moved here five years ago because we’re country people, and it’s only 20 minutes from where I grew up and where my mothe...

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/two-pennsylvanias-one-drive-no-connections/