January 20th is just nine days from the writing of this post. That day and the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala
Category: Activism
Think Twice Before Underfunding Police
But these protests have gone on far longer than most other occasions of citizens taking to the streets, and I’m fearing that there will be an equal and opposite reaction to the fortnight of demonstrable marches. When we’re talking about human behavior, as opposed to physics, the reaction does not have to be exactly equal and opposite. But it will be characterized by significant force and will run counter to the movement that spawned it.
Creative strategies that could have worked in aftermath of George Floyd Murder
It did not work well in Ferguson, MO in 2014; it certainly is not working well now in Minneapolis and a host of other cities. Are there other ways to deal with citizen concerns besides massive displays of armed power?
Will 2020 be a battle between a rational cult (Bernie) and an irrational one (Trump)?
But as things stand now, Bernie is the one Democrat who has something akin to a cult following, one in which it is virtually impossibly to pry away supporters. There is a fundamental difference between the Bernie Cult and the Trump Cult. Bernie’s has a rational foundation and Trump’s doesn’t.
Indivisible launches “The Payback Project”
Tired of screaming at the TV screen? Looking for a way to channel that anger as you watch the daily degradation of our democratic
750 historians say Trump should be impeached
With the release of a public letter explaining their reasons for supporting the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, more than 750 American historians are
Reporting from Colombia as nationwide protests continue
On November 21, 2019, Colombia became the latest country in Latin America to take to the streets. Following protests in Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador,
A Tale of Two Jameses
John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning book (with much help from speechwriter Ted Sorensen) , Profiles in Courage, focused on eight white men (yes,
What do we do about the tweeter-in-chief?
What are we living? Drama, comedy, soap opera, reality show, tragedy, nightmare? With hindsight, history will tell us clearly. History will frame this decade
I pledge allegiance to…Indivisible
With its call for the twenty-one (and counting) currently declared Democratic presidential candidates to sign onto the We Are Indivisible 2020 Candidate Pledge, once