Opine Season Seeks Writers to Join Our Collective
Opine Season is looking for writers to join our op-ed collective. We have immediate openings has for two women and will likely seek to add one or two men later this spring. While we’re open to any...
View ArticleEddie Snowden’s Girlfriend Holds the Key
Brian Lambert Maybe the “celebrity-fugitive-with-hot-girlfriend” aspect of the massive NSA spying “scandal” is what will keep it alive long enough to have an intelligent national discussion of what it...
View ArticleRunning in the Promised Land
Portrait of the artist as a fourteen-year-old. I hit the hard streets of Chicago running. They were literally hard. I was literally running. The mountain community that had been my running grounds...
View Article“Quiet” is an Outlier in a Huckster World
Brian Lambert I finally got around to reading Susan Cain’s book, “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking”. And I’ve actually had people guffaw when I told them. “You!?”, they...
View ArticleHow It’s Done
First you “stopped and frisked” the young, the dark and the poor, but I know what that’s like and I joined with them in protest. Then you came after the immigrants but I am an immigrant and I would...
View ArticleWelcome to the First Debate of 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates
Brian Lambert And … welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first debate of the 2016 FoxNews/Clear Channel radio Republican Presidential candidates, live from the Federal Premium Ammunition grandstand on...
View ArticleA Good Death – and a Reluctant Letting Go
Milo’s work is done. We said goodbye to him on Monday morning, as he went to sleep peacefully. He had the help of our vet on his journey, the last hugs from his boys before they left for school, and...
View ArticleRemembering Chairman Fred
This article was written originally in 2004 for the 35th anniversary of Fred Hampton’s death. Screeching tires. Flashing lights. Heavily armed men rushing up the dark stairwell open fire through...
View ArticleIt Gets Easier When You Get Older
Hannah Cushing Nearing another birthday has caused me to wax reflective, but probably not in the way you’d think. If anything, turning the corner into my thirties has made me chill out. It’s as if I’ve...
View ArticleThe Race to the South Pole: I don’t Get it
Thadra Sheridan Last night it was eight degrees below zero; closer to twenty with the wind chill. This is the kind of weather where you can take a pan of boiling water outside, throw it in the air,...
View ArticleMy Father’s Death: His Final Lesson
Thadra Sheridan My father died recently. This is something that I suppose happens to us all, in the end, if we are lucky enough to make it that far in life. It was news that I had been expecting for...
View ArticleOpine Season No Longer Posting New Work
Matt Peiken In early 2013, Opine Season was just a concept—an op-ed page for the Twin Cities featuring a collective of smart, courageous, progressive voices. I recruited poets, artists and activists as...
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