Before even taking office, Trump has conjured grotesque visions of what he once called the dreams of a “unified Reich.” His ...

As an older man, I’ve learned to fully embrace joy in whatever form it chooses to reveal itself. To caress the fleeting ...

Jimmy Carter was my last president. I believe that is true for progressive civic groups, too. He actively opened up the ...

As Donald Trump threatens to take over Canada he demands Ottawa increase military spending. The apparent contradiction is ...

This is the eighth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...

I find joy in sorrow and sorrow is greater than laughter. An angel is not far from those who are sad and illness can ...

Towards the end of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen Here, the fascist dictatorship which has come to power in the ...

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” ...

Almost all novels, from Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to One Hundred Years of Solitude and ...

Apparently unbeknownst to my Republican friends, the effort to cut ‘government waste’ has a long, bipartisan, history in the ...

Gwen avocado (attribution), photographer unknown, n.d. “Is this truth I'm delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is ...

Jimmy Carter’s body has been interned after a century of energetic engagement on the earth’s surface. But his legacy remains ...