MLK in Black and White
We honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a nation. But we seem to have different interpretations on what he stood for, that are especially apparent in January 2021. Maybe we’re coming to an understanding.
A Plea for Women
This morning Lisa Montgomery became the fourth woman in the nation’s history to be executed by the federal government, the first in 67 years. Here’s how that happened.
When the Blue Comes Off
Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, and All Lives Matter — three true statements nobody should need to say. But they’ve all been said, and for Black Lives in Blue, it’s All complicated.
Three Days in America
In a long-term memory that’s both extensive and detailed, I have just a palmful of “JFK moments”–the ones in which you remember exactly what you were doing and how everything felt at an historic moment, so well you can instantly, mentally put yourself right back in it.
Maslow Looks Us Over
If America were an individual person, would she find that all of her needs are met?
While You Were Weekending
Yesterday was swearing-in day for the new United States Congress, and an eventful day it was!
Are We Cool?
As the New Year rang in hour by hour across the country, states from east to west welcomed new laws for medicinal and recreational drug use, following the will of voters in November (a majority of them at least).
Vote. Certify. Elect!
In an event that normally doesn’t receive nearly this much attention, the Electoral College votes today, in the third phase of our Presidential election process! But because it doesn’t normally receive this much attention, it may have escaped notice that there is more to the process, to take place between now and Inauguration Day.
A Journey Just Beginning
Five hundred children were brought to our border and began a new life, but not the ones their parents had planned.
Exhibit Q
America reckons with the most powerful conspiracy theory it’s ever seen. But it’s all been seen before.