Tag: Trump

Be Wary of Governments

As a person with deep ties to Venezuela, it’s been a particularly dizzying few weeks.

“Do You Know What a Fascist Is?”

When I try to speak or write about what’s happening at the border––the official policy of tearing away young children, some of them babies, from their asylum-seeking parents––my thoughts turn into an incoherent roar of grief, anger and impotence. I am reduced to a mass of unformed feelings.