Something new is taking shape at Right Now Oregon, a space for in-depth essays that breathe, think, and open space to wonder. On Assignment will be a review devoted to depth and discovery: a place where writers and readers meet to examine the ideas, movements, and challenges that define our time.
Every piece will offer the opportunity to venture beyond the day’s noise to ask harder questions. Come dive into questions about governance and the deep currents of politics, freedom and community, innovation and tradition, Oregon and the wider world. The essays will range from the political to the cultural, from history’s long arc to the quick pulse of the present, each written with the conviction that understanding begins where slogans end.
This is not a newsfeed, nor an op-ed page. It’s a review in the classic sense, a forum for sustained argument, for curiosity and doubt, for the craft of thinking aloud. Some essays will come from journalists on the ground, others from scholars, artists, and citizens with something vital to say. Together they’ll trace the contours of an unsettled age, searching for meaning amid the rapid change of the present.
On Assignment – A Review by Right Now Oregon arrives soon. Bring your questions, your skepticism, your appetite for insight. The story of our time is unfolding, come along as we follow it together, one thoughtful essay at a time.
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