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...
6 Jun, 2020
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...
2 Jun, 2020
Donald Trump’s Stealth Attack on America
“Donald Trump has made the calculated decision to let the pandemic play out without need of a federal plan for...
28 May, 2020
Never forget, never again
“George Floyd was just a guy. He was a guy at the margins, allegedly writing a forged check to pay...
28 May, 2020
The most lethal comorbidity
“Medical epidemiologists have tracked the underlying health challenges that have pushed a dangerous infection of coronavirus into fatalities…” Wim Laven...
28 May, 2020
Policing and the sanctity of life
“his is so much bigger than personal accountability. Yes, the four police officers present at the Memorial Day killing of...
24 May, 2020
“Standing Up” for Hong Kong
“Has Xi Jinping finally overplayed his hand? The new security law for Hong Kong may be just that. Whereas the...
22 May, 2020
Memorial Day rethought
“It was 35 years ago that, as a man of 34, I ventured forth to commit my first felony…” Tom...
22 May, 2020
The Four Horsemen of This Apocalypse
“Recently, while taking a virtual tour of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, I came across an image of Albrecht...
22 May, 2020
Weaponizing the Virus
“China is “the central threat of our times,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in January 2020. Since then, the...
20 May, 2020
Rethinking public safety: Trust vs. force
““Guns aren’t just a danger in and of themselves,” writes Noah Berlatsky at Quartz. “They enable a policing philosophy built...