Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

politics

  • In Bad Faith

    The political impact of these “don’t say gay bills” is furthering incoherent and illogical laws for culture war benefit.

  • We are always obsessed with figuring out what the right thing to do is in any given situation. When a person is killed by police, that right thing becomes even more fraught. When the killing looks like murder and we can see it with our own eyes? Well…you get it. We want to know what…

  • The holiday doesn’t mark an end to racism. It reminds us of its consistency.

  • Partisanship may help us understand what is going on at the moment. But it doesn’t always help us know what to do.

  • Being surrounded by bad news is exhausting. Trying to do good things can feel fruitless. And yet we know it is right.

  • We treat expectations like they’re rigid and predictable. And they might seem to be. Until one set meets another.