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(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Kamala Harris is in Good Company as She Moves Forward As Vice President Kamala Harris has proven since she began campaigning to be president, she is no neophyte in the world of politics as some proclaim. Nor is she a potted plant: She has an amazing presence, a strong intellect, an impressive resume, and refreshing charm as she campaigns calmly and with dignity. She joins a distinguished group of accomplished women who precede her as capable, courageous change makers.

SHARE        Thursday, July 4, 2024
Another "Day That Will Live in Infamy" Let's get right to it: The shocking decision by the Supreme Court has us non-Trumpers in a place of deep anxiety and overt fear. We know that our lives and our kids' futures will be forever changed by a court that has become so outrageously biased and openly political that it is not hyperbolic to charge them with the end of our democracy as we've known it.

SHARE        Friday, June 14, 2024
Were We the Lucky Ones? We stand now on the precipice of a giant sink hole that would take years to dig out of, if not generations. We owe it to our progeny to leave them a world in which we proved again our resilience and our love of freedom.

(9 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Being Jewish and American in Troubling Times It is painful for me that my president is unwilling to end American collaboration with what is clearly ethnic cleansing and yes, genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Like many Jews and others I cannot fathom why he won't end the massacres by withholding all funds for Israeli military equipment that keeps the carnage going.

SHARE        Thursday, April 18, 2024
Just How Broken is Our Healthcare System? A young woman dies in childbirth for lack of proper perinatal care. An elderly man can't afford meds to control his chronic conditions, so he rations them. A child is misdiagnosed in the emergency room. A patient waits months to see her doctor about a troublesome symptom. Stories like these abound.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 3, 2023
Are We Facing the End of Free Speech? Let us remember that our voices are not weapons. They are instead our monuments and our roadmap to a sane future for all of us. No one should be punished for raising them.

SHARE        Wednesday, November 1, 2023
The Power of Hope and the Promise of the Parkland Generation Ever since David Hogg, Emma Gonzales, and other high school student leaders began organizing against gun violence when their Florida school experienced a massacre in 2018 that killed 17 people and injured 17 more, I've clung to the belief that if we could get to the Parkland generation as political leaders, we just might save our country. I believe that now more than ever.

SHARE        Monday, October 30, 2023
A is for Absent: America's Teacher Shortage I am ever grateful for having been educated in a time when they represented the finest members of the teaching profession and I fervently hope that children will fly again once the reasons for our educational crisis are adequately resolved.

SHARE        Sunday, September 10, 2023
The Recovered Joy of Summer Travel All my life I have disagreed with Henry David Thoreau: Unlike him, I think it is "worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar." That's why inveterate travelers find the return to post-pandemic travel an exhilarating experience.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 11, 2023
Choosing Freedom: A Political Imperative In his 1941 State of the Union address, FDR said that there was "nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy." He noted that he looked forward to "a world founded upon four essential human freedoms."

SHARE        Monday, August 7, 2023
The Time for Bread and Roses is Now When I think about labor movements and unions, two favorite, true stories come to mind.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Balfour's Big Blunder and Today's Israel As a Jewish American, like many others, I am heartbroken by what is happening to Palestinians because of the excessively rightwing government now in power in Israel, a country that was founded because of atrocities committed against them.

SHARE        Friday, April 14, 2023
Growing Older in Challenging Times Also, with age comes a certain clarity. I know who I am, for better or worse. I'm clear about things I feel passionately about, and what I won't tolerate. I think I'm measurably wiser than I once was. I try to be less judgmental. Even though I rant a lot, I'm fundamentally a nice person.

(14 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 3, 2023
Where is Artificial Intelligence Leading Us? Ten years ago, I wrote a column called "Are We Headed Toward a Robotic World?" At that time battle robots and alien creatures in movies were imbued with artificial intelligence, an oxymoron if ever there was one, Star Trek and films about robotic warfare were addicting audiences who liked watching battling weird-looking warriors try to destroy each other.

SHARE        Saturday, March 11, 2023
What Would Socrates Say? A Look at America's Education Crisis I watch our education system crumble into something worse than second rate. It's a system that is being destroyed by political ideologies that influence laws, curricula, teacher qualifications, and students' futures in profoundly troubling and negative ways.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 1, 2023
Where is Abigail Adams in Today's Political Discourse? In all the talk about encroaching autocracy in America and elsewhere, politicians, pundits, media personalities and others need to remember the words and wisdom of the revolutionary first First Lady, Abigail Adams, who admonished her husband to "remember the ladies."

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 16, 2022
The Wandering Souls of Migration, Immigration and Asylum Seeking According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), "record numbers of migrants [from just Central America] risked their lives in 2022 to cross the treacherous, remote jungle region bridging Central and South America." More than 151,000 migrants came to the U.S. in less than a year from countries around the world.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 3, 2022
The Massacre of Innocents Continues Four mass shootings in less than a week killed nearly two dozen people and grievously injured many more. November saw 32 mass shootings nationally while a tally of more than 600 mass shootings had occurred across the country by then. According to the Washington Post in June, mass shootings had averaged more than one per day and not a single week till then had passed without at least four mass shootings.

SHARE        Saturday, December 3, 2022
Maternal Mortality, Abortion, and Race: A Dangerous Trifecta Much has been written in the literature of public health about America's shocking maternal mortality rate. Occasionally media reports the alarming rate when there is a hook. Advocates concerned with women and health illuminate the problem in reports and at conferences. But in light of the SCOTUS Dobbs decision on abortion, new urgency arose in addressing U.S. maternal mortality and its causes because of the link between reprod

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 1, 2022
Election Results Beyond Our Borders Matter It is November 8th, Election Day in America, as I begin to write this commentary before joining friends to watch early results of our crucial midterm election, and it is not hyperbole to say we are beyond tense. We are terrified. We know what could be coming at us if the wrong side prevails, the side that embraces demeaning language, dangerous behavior, power grabs, and cruel priorities.

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