Trump the pigeon
“As the famous ethologist Konrad Lorenz told us in his classic 1963 book, On Aggression, we humans are closer to...
“As the famous ethologist Konrad Lorenz told us in his classic 1963 book, On Aggression, we humans are closer to...
“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...
“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...
“Caring for the health and safety of our children and families is common ground where Americans on the left and...
“Recently, I traveled by train across the US in a swaying, creeping journey of that took me through the backyards...
“The paradox of democracy is that it depends on the integrity of those who have the most to lose if...
“Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching...
“Automation isn’t coming. It’s here. At the airport, the public library, the grocery store, and dozens of other places, touch...
“This country was built on protest, or so we are told. Americans fight for what is right, to correct injustices...
“What is the new frame for Republican Senate candidates? In Arizona, John McCain claims that once Clinton is elected…” Tom...