IMPORTANT READS

GUEST WORDS-Oppressive institutions routinely paint activists as “extremists.” This tells the public to fear change and helps those in power to maintain the status quo.

WORLD WATCH-While I cheer Biden’s victory in the presidential election, I lament the state of the union Trump is leaving behind.

MAKING SENSE OUT OF CHAOS-Students and friends sometimes ask me what can be done in the face of the flood of despairing news of the day.

POST-ELECTION VIEW-Biden won — so Trump seems to be attempting a coup. And meanwhile, this election has revealed just how bitterly, painfully divided America really is.

VIEW FROM HERE-I was texting with my sister the other day, and President Trump was set to make a public announcement for the first time since he lost the election.

COMMENTARY-Imagine for a moment that Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election in 2016. 

PERSPECTIVE--And now . . . what? 

ELECTORAL UNCERTAINTY-There are less than ten days to go now. It’s the most crucial election in American history.

ELECTION PAYOFF--Joe Biden is headed to the White House, and he has low-income voters to thank.

ANALYSIS--As I watch America wrestle with the task of un-electing an orange-tinted ball of insecurity and pettiness, I’m trying to figure out how to sum up my feelings in a way that does more than express frustration and/or despair.

ELECTION 2020, CONTINUED---Mixing with the jubilation shared by tens of millions across the U.S. and the world generated by President-elect Joe Biden's declared victory this weekend,

CORONA WATCH-Let’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? Now let’s say you’re a billionaire. That’s a lot more money! But how much more? 

THE ELECTION, WHAT HAPPENED? During the late 1940s, researchers, led by Theodor Adorno, studied the historical conditions that paved the way for the rise of fascist regimes in the 1920s and 1930s, World War II, and the Holocaust.

VIEW FROM HERE--Who knows what will happen over the next couple of days.

POST ELECTION 2020-“It ain’t over til it’s over,” said Yogi Berra, but the widening lead for Joe Biden in recent polls suggests it might not be too early to start thinking about what to expect in the 78 days from November 3 to January 3.

GUEST WORDS--Momentous change is in the air. 

ELECTION 2020-I have some good news — or at least some slightly better news — and I have some bad news. 

WORLD WATCH--As a little Jewish boy in the streets of Baghdad I was looked upon by Arab boys my age as inferior.

CLIMATE POLITICS-For nearly a decade the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has been streaming radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

GUEST WORDS--In a mind-numbing, butt-freezing, irony-rich shitshow that begged willing metaphors to write themselves, the guys who say they want to run the country just failed to run a parking lot in Omaha after missing post-rally buses left thousands of believers stranded for hours and miles in frigid temps in search of their cars, and dozens in need of medical help.

GUEST WORDS--In a stunningly brazen pivot, the White House has admitted to giving up on the pandemic, even as a "grossly negligent" Pence continues campaigning despite five aides testing positive and Trump gallivants across the country leaving COVID outbreaks in his wake, stopping only long enough to insanely charge doctors are inflating COVID numbers to make more money.