Engage

Reading Time: 3 minutes No one willingly joins a cult. They are lured and tricked and coerced all the up to the precipice of emotional and intellectual surrender—and then they fall in. Once there, it is nearly impossible for them to leave voluntarily. They can’t see that they are fighting against their own self-interest, by aligning with the one holding them hostage.

Leaving isn’t an option, and so someone who loves them persistently and fiercely, needs to brave the wounding words and the violent opposition, to try and rescue them.

Reading Time: < 1 minute The lines that divide us are nowhere near as strong as the ties that bind us. When we join together and work together — we will rise.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Award-winning author Rebecca Traister says women’s anger isn’t ‘ugly’ or ‘hysterical’ — it’s valid and necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute A candidate of color is running for president again, so *naturally* the baseless birther conspiracies are back about Sen. Kamala Harris (she was born in California, btw)

Reading Time: 11 minutes As the president fights to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, the journalists Azam Ahmed and Meridith Kohut are driving along the approximately 1,900-mile border and sending dispatches.
Goods flow freely. People?
That’s another story.