The MAGA folks are thrilled that people living here with brown skin are terrified about what’s happening under Trump. But how sustainable is this? How long will it take until fatal gunshot wounds between the hunters and the hunted become …
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The story at left is a strange one, though worth telling for a good reason: We all should make sure that money plays its proper role in our lives. One part of this tale rings particularly true: avoid displays of …
I would describe what Rousseau said about himself here as “gutsy.” Most of us don’t want paradoxes in our mental lives; such “cognitive dissonance” as it is called is an uncomfortable phenomenon.
If Dickens’ hope as expressed here is going to come to fruition, it will be because decent people actively made it happen. When I was a little boy my grandfather told me, “Try to leave this world in better condition …
Trump’s following of amoral rich people and uneducated whites seems to be remaining in place, because neither group actually cares too much about the veracity of what comes out of his mouth. The former group is getting tax breaks, and …
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Donna Smedley writes: Remember when Canada and the U.S. were best friends? Hockey jokes, Niagara Falls road trips, and snowbirds flooding Florida condo boards with drunk westerners getting arrested in VEGAS? Yeah. That relationship’s gone. Welcome to Canada’s unofficial, but …
Without doubt, a cleanly and frequently mowed lawn of some variety of grass was the paradigm for our front and back yards when we were young. Many of us today, however, if we had it to do over again, would …
It’s hard to know how the mass deportation of law-abiding though undocumented workers will turn out. Here are a few possibilities: The economic collapse of entire industries like farming, construction, hospitality, and the management of restaurants. This exercise in stupidity …
At left are the words of billionaire Mark Cuban, offering an observation on the U.S. president that we don’t encounter every day. Look, I understand that we, as flawed human beings, are capable of electing a flawed president. But I …
It’s great to see the new pope promoting kindness. This represents real change from the entire history of the church before Pope Francis came along in 2013.
