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Minnesota Churches Face Tough Questions in Offering Sanctuary to Immigrants

March 22, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Minnesota St. Paul Cathedral

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For these churches, giving protection to immigrants is no longer a matter of if, but when. And what will happen if ICE comes to their doors?

Filed Under: Culture, Politics Tagged With: Immigration, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Refugees, Sanctuary

Sustained Outrage: Steven Soderbergh’s Che and the Virtue of Uprising

March 6, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

The soulful revolutionary and violent guerilla poses difficult questions for today’s opposition movement.

Filed Under: Culture, Movies Tagged With: Che, Che Guevera, Criterion Collection, Joey Armstrong, Steven Soderbergh

What the Hunger Games tells us about wild spaces and America

February 28, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Some consideration of wilderness in Susan Collins’ post-apocalyptic totalitarian child-murder series

Filed Under: Books, Culture, Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: American Romanticism, Hunger Games, Nature, Thoreau, Wilderness Ethic

With the Time That is Given to Us: The Importance of the Quest/Hero Myth in an Era of Oppression”

February 21, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Frodo, Harry, and Katniss remind me, and all of us, that we are all part of the resistance

Filed Under: Culture, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Donald Trump, Harry Potter, Hero's journey, Joey Armstrong, Joseph Campbell, Lord of the Rings, politics

“Let’s start with you, Milo…” Bill Maher shows how not to fight the alt-right

February 18, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

A “pathetic douchey little ass” yucks it up with Bill Maher on HBO. We all lose.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured, Politics Tagged With: Alt-right, Bill Maher, Larry Wilmore, Milo Yiannouplos, politics, racism, White Power

Refugee Chaos: Trump Has “Turned the Rules Upside Down”

February 1, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

That chaotic implementation has left lives in limbo.

Filed Under: Culture, Politics Tagged With: Donald Trump, Islamophobia, Muslim Ban, politics

“This Machine Kills Fascists:” Creativity as Protest in the Era of President Trump

January 31, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

The great artists of the world remind you every damn day that our voices matter

Filed Under: Culture, Featured, Politics Tagged With: Ava Duvernay, Fascism, Hayao Miyazaki, Joey Armstrong, politics, This Machine Kills Fascists

David Harbour brings down the f*cking house at SAG Awards.

January 30, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

“We will get past the lies. We will hunt monsters.”

Filed Under: Culture, Featured, Movies Tagged With: David Harbour, politics, Stranger Things

How Minnesota’s Somali Muslims Are Raising a 10,000-Person Anti-Hate Army

January 25, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

The large refugee community in Minnesota is a big target for bigotry, and tensions are expected to get worse. But they’ve got a plan.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured, Politics Tagged With: Islamophobia, Minnesota, politics

Exit, pursued by bear

January 19, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

It is the last night of the Obama Administration. So, farewell, President Obama and Vice-President Biden. As elected officials, you’ll be missed, I assure you. I don’t thank you for the war, the drones, the spying. But I thank you for the ACA, the recovery, pursuing equality and justice, looking for ways to end discrimination, […]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured, Politics

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