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A Step After Bernie

Super Tuesday is meaningless if we can’t take one step forward. I recently unsubscribed from the Bernie Sanders email list. The incessant need for contributions was annoying. I realize all campaigns are [Read On…]

A Connected Society Doesn’t Forget

Anyone who is surprised by the doomed attempts of 31 United States governors to block Syrian refugees need not look further than the 1930’s, when American politicians barred Jewish women and children [Read On…]

Anti-Political Correctness is the New Southern Strategy

At the Beaverton Transit Center, I sat on a bench alongside two Hispanic women and their spunky kindergarten-aged daughter. Sitting between us was a wizened, portly old man with white five-o’clock-shadow. He [Read On…]

The Greatest Nation’s Festering Conspiracy

Featured image by Keylay Tukor Confronting 9/11 for the Sake of Healing The events of September 11th, 2001 have never been adequately explained. After the initial shock, having witnessed something never-before-seen, few [Read On…]

Hold Your Breath

How John Berry and Others Could Have Survived It was past two in the morning when the vintage buzzer to my apartment — the one connected by a single phone line from [Read On…]

WHY AMERICA NEEDS FEWER JOBS

Family Values and the Workforce Participation Rate This morning, I read about Jeb Bush and his recent comment that, “workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows.” So in order [Read On…]

Feed Your Head

I remember suffering the idea of college throughout high school. While most of my classmates were off applying to universities far and wide, I was not, and I recall a formative alienation [Read On…]