Democracy is What Happens Between Elections
Reading Time: 5 minutesConfluence Daily | November 3, 2026 There is something peculiar about the way Americans experience democracy. For months, we treat
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One place where everything comes together
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A Blessing on Your Ballot
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Lisa M. Hayes for Confluence Daily A Blessing for the Ballot Dear sister, May your vote be blessed. May
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A Little Gossip Is Good for Civilization
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: Lisa M. Hayes for Confluence Daily I am suspicious of people who claim they never gossip. Not because I
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You Are Not the Only Witness of Your Life
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: Lisa M. Hayes for Confluence Daily Lately, I’ve been thinking about the difference between the person we believe ourselves
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I’d like to reach a point where chemo chic is not a beauty standard.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the last several weeks, I have watched people enthusiastically celebrate the weight loss of women who have lost weight
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Black Americans Do Not Commit Suicide by Lyching Themselves
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: Lisa M. Hayes If white women were being found hanging from trees in public places across the South, I
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Your Nervous System Might Be the Bottleneck
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Lisa M. Hayes for Confluence Daily Too often we treat a nervous system problem like a discipline problem, and
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Cruelty is Cheap and Remarkably Basic
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: Lisa M. Hayes for Confluence Daily I have been noticing how casual cruelty has become. Not spectacular cruelty. Not
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The Fire Does Not Stop at the Border
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Lisa Hayes for Confluence Daily The international consequences of Trump’s environmental policy cannot be reduced to America’s absence
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The task right now is NOT to feel fine.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Lisa Hayes for Confluence Daily I think one of the cruelest things about the Empire is that it does
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