14 Oct, 2020
Before the fake holiday known as Columbus Day completely disappears for another year, I want to grab hold of it for a moment and look at what it really has to offer us: a dizzying dose of historical realism.
9 Oct, 2020
What if we stopped separating the looming national chaos into separate categories —racism, climate change, war, vote suppression, election theft, pandemic, science denial, white supremacy, police brutality, etc. — and tried looking at it all at once?
1 Oct, 2020
Where, oh where, is the United States of America — global leader, creator of democracy, hope of humankind? It certainly wasn’t up there on the debate stage last night.
“Shut up and let corporate America — and also, for that matter, corporate Taiwan — get on with its business…”...
““Plastics!” Yeah, it’s everywhere … not just in grocery store aisles and department stores and every other commercial outlet you...
“This looks like the beginning of a civil war. The chaos and violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin are unfolding as I...
““They were covered with blood and burned and blackened and swollen, and the flesh was hanging from the bones. Parts...
“As election 2020 draws ever closer, the flawed, easily gamed nature of the American quasi-democracy becomes increasingly visible, thanks, of...
“Here’s a quietly unsettling moment from the current cries for change churning across the nation:…” Robert C. Koehler Published in:...
““There are so many . . . primitive tribes — they don’t understand anything.” The global movement to end racism...
“Change. Now. I get that, and understand the symbolism of packed heat. A gun says: We mean business…” Robert C....
“Topple a few statues, remove some iconic names from American institutions . . . and the ghosts of the past...
“Maybe CHOP won’t last, but something is changing. Our national groupthink, as maintained with such stalwart certainty over the last...
“Well, he deserved to die, didn’t he? He fought, he ran, he grabbed the cop’s taser and fired it. And...
“Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The...
