The Debate: They Both Bombed It
“There was more than one loser in the big debate, but that’s no surprise. I hardly expected any issues of...
“There was more than one loser in the big debate, but that’s no surprise. I hardly expected any issues of...
“Like many others, I was deeply disturbed by much of what I heard (and saw) during the presidential debate on...
“A half-century ago I was a 17-year-old who had just been hired to do door-to-door canvassing for the Minneapolis Housing...
“With the possibility of America’s first woman president looming, it’s appropriate to consider the monumental struggle for gender equality.” James...
“In early September 2016, Donald Trump announced his plan for a vast expansion of the U.S. military, including 90,000 new...
“It seems that some who have the ears of U.S. elite decision-makers are at least shifting away from wishing to...
“Maybe half a million dead, half a country — 10 million people — displaced from their homes, jettisoned onto the...
“Remember a semi-comic Cold War movie, “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”? A deadly Soviet Union nuclear submarine”...
“Rights. We are inundated with a great deal of loose talk about “rights.” What sorts of them? Legal rights. Civil...
“Through a combination of denial, lack of empathy, fear-mongering, security jargon and political dysfunction, the question of what to do...
“The dogs growl, the pepper spray bites, the bulldozers tear up the soil. “Water is life!” they cry. “Water is...
“OK, the history of the United States is one of a nation built on robbery, murder, massacre, exploitation by armed...
“Caring for the health and safety of our children and families is common ground where Americans on the left and...
“Although the mass media failed to report it, a landmark event occurred recently in connection with resolving the long-discussed problem...
“Recently, I traveled by train across the US in a swaying, creeping journey of that took me through the backyards...