March 15, 2021Activists Mark 50th Anniversary of Daring FBI Break-in
January 22, 2021These words from legendary CBS producer Fred Friendly are on the mind of a former student.
September 4, 2020The Atlantic published a story detailing Trump’s contempt for military service and the self-sacrifice of those killed in the line of duty. Trump is reacting with panic.
June 23, 2020In April 1967, at New York City’s Riverside Church, Dr. King delivered a sermon that offered a profound diagnosis of the illnesses afflicting the nation. King summoned the nation to “undergo a radical revolution of values” that would transform the United States “from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.” Only through such a revolution, he declared, would we be able to overcome “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.”
June 4, 2020Demagogue that he is and that he’s toyed with becoming since well before he ran for president, Donald Trump used his June 2 rant against looting and thuggery after George Floyd’s murder to bang the drum for a civil war that he’s been toying with. But how pure was the republic before he stepped into the spotlight?
May 11, 2020"Sea Salt"
October 17, 2017By removing most Americans from the combat arena, we gained the ability to wage war forever, and damn the consequences.
March 7, 2017When did we start to think of the president as commander-in-chief first and executor of laws a distant second?
January 20, 2017Resistance doesn’t mean just standing strong; it means doing so without rushing, and without faltering.
