“We wanted workers . .not people”

August 16, 2019 By Leave a Comment

Last week, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted massive raids on chicken processing plants in the state of Mississippi, detaining nearly 700 immigrant workers, many of whom entered the country illegally years ago. The raids, which spanned seven cities and targeted work sites … Click here to continue --->

Still waiting for gun sanity

August 9, 2019 By Leave a Comment

No, this is not -- sadly -- the inflection point, not the catalyst that brings us to our senses. Dual atrocities over last weekend will not force the nation to come to grips with our crazed worship of guns. It took us a few decades to reach the depths of this insanity, and it will take several more … Click here to continue --->

Trump’s other America

July 30, 2019 By Leave a Comment

There are two Americas, and they are at war. In one, every word uttered by President Donald J. Trump is the golden gospel, swaddled in larger truths if hostile to simple facts. In the other, Trump is a habitual liar — a con man who has run the Oval Office as a criminal enterprise. To one … Click here to continue --->

The hate they give

July 19, 2019 By Leave a Comment

My daughter was born in December 2008, just weeks after the nation elected Barack Obama its first black president. I was euphoric, overly confident in my country, giddily optimistic about the future. Addressing her in a diary, I wrote: “. . .I’m thrilled you’re going to grow up in a nation … Click here to continue --->

If climate change is a hoax . . .

July 19, 2019 By Leave a Comment

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”— George Orwell, 1984 As President Donald J. … Click here to continue --->