Risk 1
Chicago, Illinois (August 2016) Using a Risk board game, I was inspired by the countries’ outlines as a way to designate the shape of…
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Meet the government: Carolyn McNary
Editor’s Note: For the Local Government issue of Topology, we interviewed individuals who have been involved in local government in and around Three Rivers,…
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Ten reasons I love to pay my taxes (and you should, too)
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 20o9, Bill Boerman-Cornell celebrates the virtues of…
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Within the household of nature
Sustainable? For who? For me, for you, for us, for everybody? No, I’m fucking not living sustainably. My welfare is dependent on the third…
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Meet the government: Tom Springer
Editor’s Note: For the Local Government issue of Topology, we interviewed individuals who have been involved in local government in and around Three Rivers,…
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One thing I’m not doing in my poems: reporting on anything that really happened. When I say I’m from New York, Glaswegians say, “Oh,…
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Meet the government: Carol Higgins
Editor’s Note: For the “Local Government” issue of Topology, we interviewed individuals who have been involved in local government in and around Three Rivers,…
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Ten things I did instead of writing an editorial about local government
“What can we do?” So many people I know are asking this question right now, as the new President of the United States begins…
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The politics of bearing witness
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2011, Brett Beasley takes us back…
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Ometepe
Ometepe, Nicaragua (2015) A short ferry ride across Lake Nicaragua from the mainland, Ometepe Island feels like another world. Away from the bustle, the…
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