I find it shamefully ironic that 85 years after the genocide of Jewish people and others by the Nazis, the Israeli government behaves in the same way. No ovens, just bombs and missiles. I remind those who remain ignorant that this mess was created in 1947 with the Balfour Declaration by Britain. Then came the […]

The recent “No Kings” protests affirmed just how furious millions of American patriots are with the Trump administration’s Gestapo-esque enforcement of deportation policy. However, by focusing our energy on the acute symptoms of our country’s MAGA disease (ICE abductions, the president’s deluded ramblings, his unhinged foreign policy, etc.) we distract ourselves from the root cause […]

In the year 1969, man landed on the moon, and my 7-year-old brother was admitted to the children’s cancer ward at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Curing childhood leukemia in 1969 was truly a moonshot. My brother did not survive. My parents, in their unfathomable grief, gave consent to an autopsy. What […]

I’m writing to voice my support for Rep. Laurel Libby and speak out about what happened to her — and to us, her constituents — over the past several months. I’m pleased the courts have untied the hands of my representative, but angry that for months we citizens of Auburn and Minot were without representation. […]

As a retired asthma and allergy physician and a new grandmother, I am extremely concerned about a bill being considered in Congress that would devastate the Medicaid program and significantly cut programs that clean our air. I spent my career caring for people who depend on treatments and medications as well as clean air to […]

Protesting is a form of free speech against the government or policy decisions that affect our way of life. There is something eerily familiar about the “riots” in Los Angeles and the use of force against the protesters. People have been protesting in this country before it was a country. Think of the infamous Boston […]