Unequivalent Equivalency

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Fe Bongolan writes on the pattern of distraction and false equivalence used by the press in covering the 2016 Presidential campaign. How are these candidates perceived as equal? This campaign’s press proves the new “normal” isn’t normal. It’s monstrous.

Unhealthy Penchant

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Fe Bongolan writes on this week’s news of Mrs. Clinton’s bout with pneumonia, and the cancellation of her California campaign stop, which raise specters — old and new — of the issues that keep cropping up and haunting all things Hillary.

The Power of Work

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In today’s column, Fe Bongolan writes on her own brief history of working in a factory and the labor it takes by others to keep life easy for those comfortable enough to afford it. Her story is a reminder of what Labor Day really stands for, and of the importance of worker protections.

The Last Thing You Think About

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The coming of Northern Hemisphere autumn is a time of profound energy that propels life forward: the end of summer and the beginning of the school year, the bright colors of the leaves of deciduous trees. The time of harvest. The cycle of life and death as reflected in creation. Today, Fe Bongolan’s column reflects on the transition from this one season to the next with the unexpected death of a friend’s daughter.

The Games

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This week Fe Bongolan reflects on the 2016 Rio Olympics and its aftermath. All in all, humans still need to have celebrations of human spirit and achievement, not just as a distraction but as a given. If only there was another way that the Olympics could happen without leaving such a brutish footprint on another country’s fragile society.

Tolerance Threshold

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Fe Bongolan writes about the Presidential campaign’s pressure on our tolerance threshold. It feels like a burning process, finding final release when we get this election done. Yet what do we do in the meantime? How do we hang tough and not break over the next two more months of political lunacy?

Strange Dreams

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Just in time for Trump’s progressed Sun and Ascendant to lunge from Leo into Virgo, with the abyss awaiting on Election Day, the Republican National Committee was compelled to take @realDonaldTrump out to pasture. Fe Bongolan reports on the shifting tone of the candidate and the campaign during this transition period, as a “birthing period in our country’s history.”

The Speech

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Taking a Constitution out of his pocket and asking if Donald Trump had even read it, the Muslim father of a Pakistani-American soldier killed in Afghanistan reclaimed the American ideals of patriotism and sacrifice. Fe Bongolan writes on the immense strength of speaking truth to power, and the personal as political.