Shay 
In a fairly confined space, surrounded by a lot of other governors who either fear or idolize Donald Trump, Maine Gov. Janet Mills was openly defiant toward the would-be king Donnie. This is not an easy thing. A U.S. president can be intimidating under the best of circumstances, and these aren’t the best circumstances because …
We are living in deeply unsettling and downright scary times. For younger Americans, particularly those of us under 60, we have never experienced anything like what is going on in our country. Despite knowing what was possible under a second Trump term, to see progress that we assumed would last forever being brutally, systematically, and …
It has been almost 21 years since my mother died and I still remember that night as if it were yesterday. My mother was in a nursing home after brain surgery had taken a turn for the worse. It was the early 00s and cell phone technologies weren’t what they are now. My father had …