19 Jun, 2020
Rayshard Brooks (and so many more) should still be alive
“Police departments all across America keep proving the same point: they are not training officers to honor the protection of...
19 Jun, 2020
Quarantine quarrels and 10 helpful hints
“My wife and I are both professionals who teach and counsel individuals and couples about how to handle their conflicts...
17 Jun, 2020
Defunding ‘justified’ murder
“Well, he deserved to die, didn’t he? He fought, he ran, he grabbed the cop’s taser and fired it. And...
16 Jun, 2020
Let Them Eat Weapons: Trump’s Bizarre Arms Race
“In late May of this year, President Donald Trump’s special envoy for arms control bragged before a Washington think tank...
14 Jun, 2020
From Rage to Reform
“George Floyd is becoming the Emmett Till of the 21st Century. The ongoing, passionate, widespread, and no longer violent demonstrations...
11 Jun, 2020
White Supremacy and World Supremacy
“Recently the Equity Leadership Steering Committee associated with an almost entirely white school district in Maine came out with a...
11 Jun, 2020
Globally uprooting a racist past
“And the toppled statue of a 17th century slave trader, now at the bottom of Bristol Harbour, is suddenly more...
8 Jun, 2020
Why did the chicken cross the road?
“The coronavirus is now responsible for more than 110,375 American deaths. The White House response to this medical emergency has...
7 Jun, 2020
The Subversion of New York City’s Official Policy to Curb Police Brutality
“In early November 1966, my sister and I?armed with a bucket of home-made paste, a wide brush, and a thick...
6 Jun, 2020
Finding Peace in Chaotic Times
“Conflict is eternal and inevitable. Only the manner in which we manage it is our choice. The global crisis caused...
5 Jun, 2020
America’s Tiananmen?
“”When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.”–Sinclair Lewis June 4 is...
5 Jun, 2020
Leaked Memo Suggests Republicans Now Want to Convict Trump
“I’ve been made aware of some anonymous but apparently real insider GOP analysis that I believe is of value as...
4 Jun, 2020
The End of “Othering”: Another Kind of Global Climate Change
“There is another kind of climate change, a mental one, we are undergoing, catalyzed by the combination of the pandemic...
4 Jun, 2020
The knee for change
“Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The...
4 Jun, 2020
On the Fetishization of Protest
“The protests that have spread across the country in the last week due to the murder of George Floyd by...