Leave it to Trump to cap off his catastrophic tenure by tripling down on the criminal behavior that got him impeached in the first place. It’s safe to assume that Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, never imagined he’d be muscled like Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Spineless Senate Republicans exonerated Trump last winter after he […]

Recently, I was teaching an adult Zoom course entitled “Let’s Talk: Reckoning with Racism.” Within a few minutes into the first class, a Zoom bomber hacked it and displayed a man eating potato chips while the n-word repeated loudly in the background. We all quickly left the meeting and got back in on another platform. […]

My father had terminal lung cancer. He fought like a Spartan at Thermopylae, his body riddled with chemo and radiation, his stomach filled with macrobiotic foods lovingly prepared by my mother, his mind steeped in the defiance of death as exhibited by Dylan Thomas who wrote the words that were buried with him, in his […]

From Wikipedia: Psychic numbness is a tendency for individuals or societies to withdraw attention from past experiences that were traumatic, or from future threats that are perceived to have massive consequences but low probability. What are some examples? It may be different for each of us, but some examples that stand out include the threat […]

Outlook for American Democracy not good A principal requirement of democracy is fair and frequent elections; closely linked to that is the necessity for losers of elections to accept valid, certified results. In the great majority of our Presidential elections, the loser has conceded, usually in good grace, on election night or shortly thereafter. Now, […]