Landlords, Inflation, and Market Regulation: Inflation meets greedflation
I live in North Kingstown, and a friend of mine, a retired police officer, rented the downstairs half of a house down the street from me. At least he did […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Skating on ICE with Technology: Is Immigration and Customs Enforcement coming for your smartphone?
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been increasingly scary and threatening under the Trump administration. A few days ago, armed and masked agents converged on a Chicago apartment house, […]
Fact Check — Interpreting Kirk’s shooter: Was Charlie Kirk Murdered for the Lulz? Media misses dark nihilism of on-line culture
Political violence is a bad thing from any perspective, but there is a long tradition of it. In the classic 1970 collection of over one hundred primary source documents American […]
High Art at a High Price: The cost of living in the Creative Capital
It should be abundantly clear to anybody who has read my work over the last years of published pieces here at Motif: I love the city of Providence. Everything about […]
Won’t You Raise This Flag With Me
On November 25, 2023, Brown Student and Palestinian-Irish American, Hisham Arwatani, was shot in Burlington, Vermont, while visiting family during his Thanksgiving break. He, alongside two of his friends, was […]
TRUMP’S BIG NOT SO BEAUTIFUL BILL
At this point, what more can be said about the orange stain on our country that is Donald J. Trump? From his blatant racism and misogyny, to his constant grifting […]
Opinion — PVD City Council Flies Palestinian Flag: Check your privilege while globalizing the intifada
The members of the PVD City Council who asked on May 14 to fly a Palestinian Arab flag in their chamber and in front of City Hall, and held a […]
Chasing the Sound: Why so many bands keep the Grateful Dead alive
As I write this, I’m listening to the Grateful Dead’s legendary 1977 Cornell concert — considered by many Deadheads to be the band’s finest live performance. I only started listening […]
Space Junk: Junk food, junk mail, junk cars
Could life on planet Earth get any worse? That was the zinger that immediately popped into this reporter’s mind, as I thought about a permanently altered landscape buried in every […]
Stronger than Fear, Más Fuertes que el Miedo: The reality of immigrants in the U. S.
As an immigrant from Venezuela who has already lived through a Trump administration, I want to address the growing fear within our community about the potential for increased deportations and […]