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On World AIDS Day, longtime HIV carrier considers progress
LOS ANGELES — On this World AIDS Day, I will enter my 40th year of living with HIV. I have seen a lot over those...
Pressed releases: Silver budget linings; Travis Meadows
It's been said that, in either Chinese or Japanese, the word for crisis and the word for opportunity are the same.
While that's actually horse shit, it is true...
Letter: A triumph of our new king
(Editor's note: NonDoc publishes letters to the editors. The following creative writing was submitted as a rhetorical examination of Donald Trump's impending presidency. Submit...
Letter: Technology but no sense, brains but no heart
To the editors:
Think about it: We are advanced enough to send a satellite to Saturn through a bunch of millions miles of empty space,...
Sundaze: Reporting live from Mogadishu
Reporting from Mogaadishuuuuu…
By Kariuki wa Nyamu
Grenades are hurled! Bullets meet bullets, in
human raids and sink deep into flesh, as rifles take final assault!
Men perish...
Poems: ‘The Blue God’ of war is coming and more
The Blue God
by Joan McNerney
The blue god of war
is so strong
he can twist trees
with the tip of his tongue.
You better not defy him
scream at...
From Zimbabwe: ‘A hunger for shared experiences’
(Editor's note: The following three poems are written by Ndaba Sibanda of Zimbabwe.)
How They Received Him
He was moving from door
to door, asking citizens
to give...
Nigerian poet offers up two short pieces
A Slap on Revolution
by Nelson Vincent Ayomitunde
When we raise our hands in resilience
We are battered down in disdain
When we raise our eyes against decadence
We...
Sundaze: Turkey talk for a lovely November
A little turkey talk for your Sundaze
I am tired of politics.
— Mike Allen
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art...
Electoral College worth saving (but needs tweaking)
Once again, another presidential election has occurred in which the candidate who earned the most popular votes failed to win a majority of electoral votes....
