So, we are largely a nation of test-takers rather than critical thinkers. This can tell you a lot about the obsession so many have
Category: Civil Rights
The View From The Tower
If you were looking for a hackneyed and inelegant metaphor for privilege and inequality, the building I work in would be an excellent choice.
DEA says “no” to Trump’s remarks on rough treatment of suspects
The acting chief of the Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA] is not pleased with Donald Trump’s remarks to law enforcement officers, telling them not to
The battle within between dispassion and empathy
I had been planning on writing yet another article decrying the afflictive double standard and dog whistle politics of the term “terrorism.” Saturday, thousands
The Global Gag Rule Is Back: The Human Cost
Do you remember last year’s reports of undecided voters who vowed not to cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election because they just couldn’t
A progressive feminist view of equality in the military draft
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been an outspoken feminist since my awkward middle-school years. I own multiple shirts proclaiming “This is What a Feminist
The Warmth of Other Suns plus “Lift Every Voice” concert: A powerful combination
My experience recently at the “Lift Every Voice” concert at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis was much different than it would have
Holman rule: Purging federal employees
Republicans in Congress are binge-ing and purging–but their disorder isn’t of the eating variety. They are binge-ing on power and setting the stage–via passage
The Scrawler strikes again: A Trumpian response to my letter to the editor
Found today in my mailbox—the snail-mail kind: A note in response to my recent letter to the editor in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The
What about the freedoms not related to guns?
If you watch enough news, if you listen to enough talk-radio, if you even read mainstream press, you might think that the only part