Radio Free New Hampshire: In the Soup

An oyster farmer named Graham Platner came out of nowhere to run for the Senate against Susan Collins, the last moderate Republican still surviving in the wild. He entered the primary as an angry progressive and he handily defeated the establishment’s preferred candidate.

Radio Free New Hampshire: Slouching Towards Washington

The news cycle will not slow down, and it’s ironic to think of poetry when considering the presidency of Donald Trump, the least poetic president our country has ever known. But Yeats has a way of applying in these harsh modern times. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / the falcon cannot hear the falconer.”