All of us are civilians most of the time, but many of us rarely think like one. If we are to save the planet, we had better get on board....

If something is going in the wrong direction, the worst thing you can do is to “make it better.” Ok, “Build Back Better” Is better than...

As I approached the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in the month before the pandemic, I heard a recording of Dr. King’s voice, a voice...

The essential contribution of African Americans in the election of Joe Biden and in the election of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff...

The “glory,” of course, is a baby’s birth. In her book The Human Condition, (1958) the philosopher Hannah Arendt defines human birth or...

What happened? Wasn’t Trump and his cohorts supposed to disappear after Biden won the election. I imagined them playing golf and then...

The. response to the claim “Black Lives Matter” that “all lives matter,” may be a sign that the speakers are unaware of the climate of...

We elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That’s majority rule! Yet, seventy-one millions of us voted for a racist predator who has...

We know the “N” word is out-of-bounds in most conversations, what about the “P” word? As you may have read, the voters of Rhode Island...

So, what are white men good for? They seem to be good for Trump. According to recent pieces by Michael Sokolove (10/25) and Charles M....

This interview may seem a bit strange, since I composed the whole thing. Still, your nomination to the Supreme Court raises some...

First lesson from 2020: We cannot protect what we have without protecting what we share. In Southern Oregon, fires destroyed the small...

We are in trouble. Is it “good trouble” as advocated by John Lewis, or some other kind? Are we heading toward something like the...

If you are a true believer, or maybe even a person with a lively imagination, it’s not that hard to think that the fires, floods, and...

If reparations are necessary, then they are the only way to change the current course of “American Prosperity,” if I may use that term to...

Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” That was in 1933, at the depth of the Depression, and he...

Instead of saying “consider the source” when we hear something strange, we could also say “consider the context. While the first option...

If you were visiting from almost anywhere, you would want to know why we have over 154,000 coronavirus deaths. One answer is the lack of...

There’s a battle going on, that’s for sure, but is it for the “Soul of America” as Joe Biden has suggested? Let’s do what we can to get...

Sometimes “we cannot just get along” because we don’t see a deeper mutuality that underlies our conflict. And sometimes, we become so...