What Running for Office in the Age of Trump Taught Me

Frida Berrigan / TomDispatch Jan 28, 2020 My run for mayor of New London, Conn., helped me discover what’s wonderful (and not so wonderful) about my nation and chosen hometown. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Loving America and Resisting Trump

Staff / Truthdig Feb 20, 2017 We’re engaged, we’re awake, we’re in love, and no one is taking our country from us. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

‘Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!’

By Frida Berrigan / TomDispatch Aug 1, 2016 I hid my face in my hands. It wasn’t just that my toddler son was playing guns but that he was using a Pride flag as his weapon at a vigil to mourn those killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Make Trump Great Again! Taking The Donald to Toddler Town

By Frida Berrigan / TomDispatch Apr 15, 2016 "I almost feel sorry for Trump, because a man so programmed to grab for every headline and steal every show and say whatever he can to keep the hot lights of the media on him undoubtedly wasn't listened to as a kid." Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Kids’ Questions on a Lockdown Planet

By Frida Berrigan / TomDispatch Dec 23, 2015 I just couldn’t square my son’s loving exuberance and confidence in the people around him with the sheer, teeth-hurting terror of children being stalked by an armed killer through the halls of the Friendship School. How, after all, do you practice for the unthinkable? Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Parenting on the Brink: Wrestling With Fears Too Big to Name

By Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch Oct 7, 2015 To have a child is to plant a flag in the future—and that is no small responsibility. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Uncle Pentagon: Growing Up in the Shadow of the American War State

By Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch Mar 12, 2015 The Pentagon loomed so large in my childhood that it could have been another member of my family. Maybe a menacing uncle who doled out put-downs and whacks to teach us lessons or a rich, dismissive great-aunt intent on propriety and good manners. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )