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December 2017
Featuring Rabbi Michael Lerner, Barbara Kingsolver, Sister Helen Prejean, Sy Safransky, and more.
December 2017See You At The Impeachment
We may survive Trump, as we did Ronald Reagan, or we may not. My first goal, now that the election is over, is to renew my expired passport under the lame-duck Obama presidency. If Trump really is Mussolini, I may finally fulfill my longtime dream of living in coastal Sri Lanka.
August 2017
Sunbeams
August 2017I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
That Night, That Morning
That night the parents tell their children they can stay up until nine, an hour past bedtime, but no more. It is a school night, after all, and the children must get up at six tomorrow morning. But this is no ordinary Tuesday night, the parents know, and the children have been begging to stay up later.
May 2017
Sunbeams
March 2017When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I’m beginning to believe it.
American Winter
Once upon a time, before Donald Trump was elected president, there was a woman who lived on a cul-de-sac where an orange cone in the middle of the road reminded drivers to slow down because children played in the street. The houses were built around a grassy circle with a fire pit where grown-ups gathered after the kids’ bedtimes.
February 2017
Write-Ins For President
I elect a climb of Precarious Peak that made me, and will forever keep me, humble as a pebble.
February 2017
Sunbeams
February 2017There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
Sunbeams
January 2017After baseball, America’s favorite pastime may be the process of reinventing itself, continuously redefining its identity and searching for its soul.
A Politics Of Hope
It is that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, and yet still come together as one American family. “E pluribus unum.” Out of many, one.
January 2017
