8 Jun, 2022
Sleepwalking into climate nightmares
How can anyone sleep at night? My first nightmare about environmental crisis occurred in 1990.
7 Jun, 2022
An ounce upstream
I tapped the drunken man on the shoulder. "David," I said, "we need your two dollars cover charge." ...
4 Jun, 2022
The arsenal, but not of democracy
America is awash with weapons, and the tragic consequences are before us every day...
3 Jun, 2022
Chaos or Community
Fifty-five years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. published his fourth and final book: “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”
2 Jun, 2022
Sexual assault and the American way
And another sex scandal pops into the news. This time it’s the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, cringing in shame upon the recent release of a “bombshell” report detailing two decades of sexual abuse by pastors and other church officials, along with ongoing official coverup of the crimes and denigration of any victims who had the courage to speak up...
1 Jun, 2022
Why would I talk to them? Research shows we can talk across our political divides
As we look at the pictures from Uvalde, Buffalo, and other mass shootings, we’re having agonized conversation...
30 May, 2022
The war in Ukraine: A national debate is needed
Of late (generational dark humor alert), I have begun to feel as though Professor Peabody and his trusty human Sherman have stuffed me into their WayBack Machine and sent me back to 2003...
29 May, 2022
Welcome, children
Welcome, children, to the world we so-called adults are handing over to you—a planetary culture of lies and power...
28 May, 2022
Biden, Taiwan, and strategic ambiguity
At a stopover in Tokyo during his Asia trip, President Biden was asked whether the US would “defend Taiwan” if it were attacked. He said yes, because “that’s the commitment we made.” Actually, there is no formal “commitment,”...
27 May, 2022
Beyond gun control, we need hatred control
Another terrorist slips into the classroom, into the news. Does anyone understand this? Even if guns are easily, readily available, why, why, why? I find it impossible even to be angry — it’s hard to be angry under incomprehensible circumstances...
26 May, 2022
Supreme Court’s latest decision devastating for death row inmates
On May 23, 2022, the Supreme Court issued yet another decision that does greater injustice to the US criminal (in)justice system...
25 May, 2022
Omicron Catches Up with North Korea
After having proclaimed for more than two years that the country was untouched by the coronavirus, North Korea now faces a potential health catastrophe...
24 May, 2022
The heart is mightier than the sword
Sounds like a horror movie on permanent rewind through the brain, through the soul. Catch your breath, buy a gun...
23 May, 2022
A reckoning for workers this November
Among the issues facing voters in the coming midterms are ones all too familiar to working people.
22 May, 2022
Humility
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin declared that he wants Russia weakened. Of course he meant militarily weakened.