15 Jun, 2022
Is our democracy at risk? Actions we all can take to protect it
“The threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family…” ...
15 Jun, 2022
10 Jan, 2022
The Annual American Whitewash
These days is it a mistake to bring up the storied practices of racism in the United States. The identification and labeling of the plain view prejudice and nefarious dog whistles calling back to histories of white privilege nostalgia are frequently met with a strong backlash...
6 Nov, 2021
Vote back better
My Dad skated for the Minnesota Gophers hockey team after he finally got done serving “for the duration” in World War II in the Philippines. So, of course, he was our coach as we PeeWees tried to learn to play hockey in Minnesota in the late 1950s. As a coach, one of his favorite go-to instructions to us was, “OK, team, back to the basics!”...