7 Oct, 2016
The Politics of Fear
“Well, OK, let’s think about these words of Jill Stein for a moment, as the 2016 presidential race enters, oh...
3 Oct, 2016
When America Was Great
“Donald Trump has an eye-catching campaign slogan: “Make American great again.” Trump maintains that “America has lost its way” and...
2 Oct, 2016
Trump the pigeon
“As the famous ethologist Konrad Lorenz told us in his classic 1963 book, On Aggression, we humans are closer to...
30 Sep, 2016
The Debate: They Both Bombed It
“There was more than one loser in the big debate, but that’s no surprise. I hardly expected any issues of...
29 Sep, 2016
Presidential Debate Recommendations
“Like many others, I was deeply disturbed by much of what I heard (and saw) during the presidential debate on...
28 Sep, 2016
Manifesting the worst old norms
“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...
28 Sep, 2016
The Long, Long Journey to Female Equality
“With the possibility of America’s first woman president looming, it’s appropriate to consider the monumental struggle for gender equality.” James...
19 Sep, 2016
Human Decency Moves Civilization Forward
“Remember a semi-comic Cold War movie, “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”? A deadly Soviet Union nuclear submarine”...
19 Sep, 2016
Your rights and our election
“Rights. We are inundated with a great deal of loose talk about “rights.” What sorts of them? Legal rights. Civil...
15 Sep, 2016
Whose Finger? On What Button?
“Through a combination of denial, lack of empathy, fear-mongering, security jargon and political dysfunction, the question of what to do...
13 Sep, 2016
Health, Safety, Toxicity . . . and Elections
“Caring for the health and safety of our children and families is common ground where Americans on the left and...
8 Sep, 2016
Sing the Body Politic, Electric
“Recently, I traveled by train across the US in a swaying, creeping journey of that took me through the backyards...
8 Sep, 2016
War vs. Democracy
“The paradox of democracy is that it depends on the integrity of those who have the most to lose if...
7 Sep, 2016
How Democrats and Republicans switched beliefs
“Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching...
7 Sep, 2016
Thrown Under the Automated Bus
“Automation isn’t coming. It’s here. At the airport, the public library, the grocery store, and dozens of other places, touch...