Can evil made tangible by Russia and inspiration embodied by the Ukrainians become the basis for unity on behalf of democracy in our country? A glimmer of hope appears to be growing...
With Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, an entire era reached forward from the past to prove Faulkner right and push us all backwards and off-balance. Do we still have the collective resolve to move this nation and the world forward?...
For one night, at least, Joe Biden's State of the Union address suggested no need to rename it, but had it been delivered days earlier, leaders of one party seemed to hail from another country...
We live in a time when islands sink under the waves. Solving our mental health crisis is going to require the kind of community-centric approach, not rugged individualism, that built our nation...
Optimism has always been integral in our rise to the first rank, if not the pinnacle, of nations. Now would be the worst time in at least eighty years, if not our entire history, to lose it. ...
There's another pandemic in America that's going largely untreated, spawned via the unholy union of Trumpism and COVID-19, and mutating into variants of identity, individuality, and isolation...
Harry Reid, John Madden, and Betty White had more in common than the recency of their departure from our all-too-mortal coil and the ineffable power of the legacies they left behind...
As we reach the end of another tumultuous year, it's clearly time for taking stock in advance of even more critical times ahead. Nothing better indicates the urgency of doing so than this recent poll result: 71% of Republicans believe our democracy is under major threat....
We've only been the United States of America in times of crisis, and today we face the greatest challenges in our nation's history. And to live out the true meaning of our name, we will have to decide not to be what our Founders...
Ours is a promised land, meaning a land of promises not yet kept and promises broken, yet still a nation young enough to hear and heed voices from its past to guide it to our promised destination. ...
