Recently I made a pilgrimage to the ancient tree at Council Grove to escape, if only temporarily, from the crush of current events and to feel beneath my hand the furrowed bark of the natural world.

Read the official termination letter for yourself.

Growers, ranchers and companies warn of too much farmland being used for AI data centers, siphoning water.

We must declare our independence from the gauds and shams of our present age and begin the work of liberty anew.

Every generation has faced a moment when quitting seemed reasonable — and every generation refused. We have no right to be the first.

Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

YouTube video by Eliza Orlins

The Steady State | by Margaret Henoch and Jennifer Gregg

ALT: a man in a suit says " o captain my captain " in white letters

The transatlantic alliance between the United States and Europe is under full-on assault. But we must not abandon it, writes A2 Editor David Troy.

Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.