State of Disaster
With natural disaster after natural disaster, Texans continues to elect officials who deny climate change. How many natural disasters will it take for the state to realize the disaster of it's elected officials?
Community schools can revitalize the neighborhoods around them
The transformative approach to school improvement is a catalyst for community revival.
The Perils of Circus Politics
No opinion leader any longer commands enough broad-based respect to influence a majority of the public. Circus politics may be fun to watch, but it’s profoundly dangerous for America and the world.
What I saw in Cuba was resilience
It was a country enduring a 66-year siege, and a people who, against all odds, continue to build, create, and care for one another.
Trump’s presidency, the demise of the major parties, and the need for a new...
It’s on all of us on the left, and in the rest of the Democratic base to pick up the pieces and to build a movement of resistance and a new political party of the left to fight for real progressive change and real democracy.
The Arc of Justice Bends Like a Rainbow
The painful struggle by brave gay and lesbian activists along with the movement for equality arose from the Stonewall Inn in New York in 1969. And therefore the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling came out of the power of struggle.
Trump fiddles while America burns and the world turns away
It’s up to all of us to do what we can to end this Dark Age. And to vote like America’s life depends on it. Because it does.
Obama should have repealed the 1917 Espionage Act in addition to commuting Manning’s sentence
Obama and Holder have bequeathed yet another tool of authoritarianism to the incoming Trumpian troglodytes.
This is what democracy looks like!
No Kings Day: An event to remember.
What is the World? Who are We? What are We Going to do About...
We are better people, individually and collectively, when we reject hubris and embrace humility, and we stand a better chance of making real progress when we better understand the world and our place in it.