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The Jackson Royal Letters
Essays and meditations by the author of “King Cockfight” on The South, America, their politics, and lots of other ugly, beautiful things.
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May 26, 2020
Stop fucking killing people
After Ahmaud Arbery, considering the oddity that armed white people keep…
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May 29, 2020
Nihilism in the sun
Crowded beaches and the Alabama attitude gone viral
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Mar 30, 2016
Alabama leadership is a weird stack of crap right now, and it’s exactly what the state wanted.
Untangling the Bentley sex scandal, which Alabama built by doing its best to be its worst.
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May 27, 2020
You’re not saving America if you’re against voting by mail.
In fact, you’re not being terribly…
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Aug 26, 2015
That time I walked in a hurricane.
A meditation on disaster and the shape of the world, at the outset of Katrina.
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Apr 20, 2017
Robert Bentley, Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and Alabama’s long defeat.
Alabama politics and its scandals…
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Apr 18, 2017
No, that woman did not ruin Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley— Robert Bentley did.
Alabama’s former governor burned his own house down. Don’t give him any excuses.
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Jun 1, 2020
The rhyme of the unheard
The American riots and the silencing of the American lie
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Sep 26, 2017
You don’t have to give Roy Moore a platform.
Really, you don’t.
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Apr 14, 2016
Local governor loves to fly.
A Q&A explaining Alabama Gov Robert Bentley, his scandals, and his affection for air travel.
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