A Little Girl Struggles to Breathe in an Uncaring Covid World Somewhere in the Midwest tonight, a young girl with athsma is struggling to breathe. All the adults in her family circle have been vaccinated. Her siblings too. They all wear masks. They. Did. Everything. Right. And now they are…

As I read and watched the horrific events unfold over the last week, and indeed over the past four years, this is the most disturbing image that I keep replaying in my mind: A protester — no, a traitor — savagely beating a Capitol Police Officer with an American flag, over and over and over, after the mob dragged the police officer down the Capitol steps. Take a deep breath…and watch the video. I have always been proud to be an American, but when something like this happens, I must question my faith in our country and my fellow citizens.

“It’s heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.” — Richard Melville Hall Our democracy has a problem. No, it’s not the Electoral College. It’s not the polarization of…

America has a hole in her soul. It is a dark, yawning crevice that drills down into the heart of who we are as a people. From our country’s roots in slavery, to the battles over civil rights, to the race-baiting rhetoric driving the crazies today, the abyss sucks us…

The search continues, 212 years later. John Adams, after he returned to private life, writing in 1805 to Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia: “Is the present state of the national republic enough? Is virtue the principal of our government? Is honor? Or is ambition and avarice, adulation, baseness, covetousness, the…

On Syria: Nobody Knows On Syria: The truth is, nobody knows. But in our hyperkinetic, turbocharged social media world of microwaved insta-analysis, everyone is an expert. You, me, the guy next door, that funny gal with the cellphone at the end of the bar. But nobody really knows if bombing…