Mandela – schmaltzy icon or revolutionary leader?
Sooner or later the news will break that Nelson Mandela has died, and the frenzy whipped up by the media about 'what will happen next' will resume.
Reza Aslan, FOX News, and Islamophobia
I thought of Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew" when I heard about the recent FOX News television interview with Reza Aslan.
Your mailman and the old lady who died alone
If we don't rethink our strategy, the community will no longer support Saturday delivery, because we did not support them when they asked for our help.
Fast food strikers teach some important lessons
In New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit and other major cities - most recently, Seattle - workers have demanded "$15 and a union."
New York mayoral race: look at social forces behind candidates
The most important criterion for judging the New York City mayoral candidates is who are the social forces behind them.
Quakers unite, and inspire, on gun violence
The Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers, have an expression called "holding in the light..."
The future of immigration reform
If people can't come across the Southern border, they will come down through Canada or as increasingly the case, by sea, to the Gulf or West coasts of the U.S.
Bush Library: Brazen attempt to rewrite history
With a price tag of $250 million, the George W. Bush library is the biggest and most expensive of the 13 that have been opened to recognize the former presidents.
“Sticks to your soul” writing: Tribute to Phillip Bonosky
I first read his (earlier) novel, Burning Valley, in college - a requirement for a class on "working class literature."
Can Destry ride again? An essay on gun control
Reducing gun violence in modern America, is not as simple as in "Destry." But neither is it a lot more complicated!
