Incarceration and the Coronavirus
We all have experiences with the Coronavirus by whatever name it is called. These are some of mine. I don’t guarantee all the “facts” are correct. I try to do […]
Category Archives: Women’s Issues
The Roots of the American Crisis
Losing the Democratic Habit YoniAppelbaum It is easy to think that Trump is the cause of all of our problems regardless of whether you agree with him or not. In […]
Ft. Sill Internment Summer Camp for Kids
In THE WEEK Magazine, June 21, 2019 under the U.S. at a glance I found this: “The Trump administration plans to move up to 1,400 migrant children in its […]
An Issue Both Parties SHOULD have solutions to.
Please read “An emergency in rural America” by Eli Saslow. Rural America is screaming for medical care. Every presidential candidate should hear those screams and respond to them with programs […]
Boring but important from The Week, May 25, 2018
White House blocks chemical pollution Study. The White House and Environmental Protection Agency squelched a federal water pollution study after a Trump aide warned that its publication would be a […]
Guest Posting: ‘There might be someone one day who just needs to hear your story’: Why Recovering Addicts Say It’s Best to be Open About Recovery
Addiction, much like depression, is a very serious mental health issue — in fact, the conditions often coincide with one another. And as with depression, addiction has a brutal way […]
Has the Smartphone Destroyed A Generation
I stole the original title by Jean M. Twenge because it is a good one. Call me old fashioned – folks do that now – I don’t understand why. I […]
Algebra, Civil Rights, Immigrants: Why Sending Them Home Won’t Solve the Job Crisis
From the book jacket of Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights: “Bob Moses went to Mississippi in 1961, a young man, drawn by the sit-ins. By 1964, his work […]
Meryl Streep Said it Best
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments […]
WE SHOULD BE AFRAID, VERY AFRAID
I am reading an article in “Atlantic Magazine” entitled “How Social Media Got Weaponized: War in the Digital Age” by Emerson T. Brooking and P.W. Singer. It is a […]
