Where Lived Truth Meets Public Power

A monthly column by Felicia Ray Owens—exploring the weight of personal truth, civic leadership, and cultural power. These stories rise from lived experience and speak with the clarity of a voice that refuses to whisper.

Rooted in community. Written to resonate.

COMING SOON

My original newspaper column launch date is scheduled for the last Saturday of June.

If that date changes, I will post it here.

February 19, 2025

Why the Center Left Struggles to Escape Its Neoliberal Past

Following the rise of right-wing populism throughout the 2010s and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, center-left political parties sought to reinvent themselves under a new interventionist economic agenda. Often dubbed “supply-side progressivism,” this approach includes a stronger state role in directing economic development, investing in infrastructure, promoting a green […]