May 2, 2020
It Just Doesn’t Matter
There was no China “travel ban,” OK?
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March 11, 2020
Let’s Be Honest
The 45th President of the United States of America is a horrible person. He’s a boor. As put in a recently popular description of why he’s unliked in the United Kingdom, “Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.â€
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August 5, 2019
We, The People…
One day, when we look back on our lives, we will be defined by the way we behaved in this moment.
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August 8, 2018
This Day In History
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June 27, 2018
Rules of Civility
I was just a kid April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in my hometown. My family – mom, dad, my younger brother Robert, and my baby sister Monica – were in the dining room finishing dinner when I rushed in from the TV room to announce the news. Both my parents had grown up in the east, in Brooklyn, but they’d lived in the south long enough to know a thing or two about race relations, and were savvy enough about “the times” to understand King’s assassination would be a momentous event, that it might change everything.
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November 6, 2017
Folks, We Have a Winner
Do U.S. Presidents go into office looking to leave a particular legacy, or do their legacies stem more from their efforts, acts, and performance on-the-job?
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September 26, 2017
It Just Doesn’t Matter
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August 15, 2017
This Is Not My Beautiful House 2
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July 14, 2014
This Is Not My Beautiful House
Toward the end of a long, rambling speech he delivered in November of 2003 at the National Endowment for Democracy’s 20th Anniversary gala, then-President George W. Bush told his audience, “The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.”
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August 21, 2012
Jesus Christ, People. It’s Not That Hard.
It seems fairly clear at this point: “the Internet” consists, for the vast majority of people in the United States anyway, of Facebook and Twitter.
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