The Children Can Hear You
Nobody ever expected what happened to America’s schools in March of 2020.
Here They Come
“Age old wisdom” asserts that the young grow more conservative as they get older. In many ways for many people, that is true, sometimes drastically so. But it’s also sometimes true, and often advised, that as adults grow even older, they lose their need to conserve a world they will some day leave behind, instead entrusting that world to the young.
The Four-Year Mission
Prior to our last Presidential election, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were already cracking down on undocumented immigrants with deportation orders. In 2016, churches across the country, the most honored of American sanctuaries, re-employed the disobediently civil practice of hiding undocumented immigrants.
The impeded stream . . . ?
With talk of COVID-19, absentee, and mail-in ballots dominating so much of the 2020 Election narrative, it’s probably escaped the attention of most that some people deal with impediments to voting every single time they cast a ballot. And worse, some may not vote at all. A Forbes article shines light on voters with disabilities, who often have to push just for access to the most important of American rights: their vote.
Under Pressure
Drop everything, listen to this, and ease your soul.
Thirteenth of March — Part Two
“A shock to the conscience . . .” Three Louisville narcotics officers go on the raid they will never forget.
The cost of success
Jared Kushner, the nation’s First Son-in-law and Senior Advisor to the President, made waves yesterday with a comment about Americans’ sense of success. On today’s “Marketplace Morning Report”, David Brancaccio spoke to Fenaba Addo, a consumer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the current state of student debt economics, and who’s shouldering the load in pursuit of the American dream.
Sound Off
Twelve days before Election Day, tonight is the “final” Presidential debate of 2020, though many would argue that there hasn’t been one yet. After the first debate between the Presidential candidates melted down into a puddle of insults, interruptions, low blows, and deflections (maybe you’d prefer to read it) . . .
Thirteenth of March — Part One
The two people who loved her most, Kenneth Walker and Tamika Palmer, recall the life and death of Breonna Taylor.
The Short, Peaceful Life of Embree Eleanor Grammer
When we hear the phrase “late term abortion”, what exactly comes to mind? Probably not a story like this one.