I recently read the new book by DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas and I found it more than slightly disturbing. Not because the content was...
It has come to symbolize the bittersweet moment when the clock strikes the New Year, when we mark time passing. It is a poem...
It’s obvious what rankles Ms. Salinis; she is an illiterate troglodyte who couldn’t handle seeing a young Black female reciting a poem of hope for this country. Nothing in Amanda’s poem remotely suggests what she claims justifies having this book banned. She is an opportunist taking advantage of the dumbass laws DeSantis pushed through his State Legislature to make Florida an autocratic state.
As my exams draw closer and closer, I find myself staring closer and closer at the contents of the various textbooks that lay strewn...
My very first effort at writing here on PlanetPOV was about this subject, one that I believe to be of vital importance to the...
What is so challenging about writing fiction? How could that be hard?
That was the question an acquaintance asked me recently. I was mildly annoyed...
In this interview, Loewen links the Civil War era to the later era known as the Nadir of Race Relations (1890-1940), and further, to the modern day Neo-Confederate movement, which tends to look amazingly like it's twin brother...the Tea Party.
While scientists remain puzzled as to the cause of the dramatic decline in honeybee populations in North America and elsewhere, some are speculating the...
"The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people. Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges. Together, these serial filers constituted 6 percent of all book challengers — but were responsible for 60 percent of all filings."
One of our very talented members here at The Planet (you'll have to guess who, I'm not tellin'!) has just had their latest book...