So, what are white men good for? They seem to be good for Trump. According to recent pieces by Michael Sokolove (10/25) and Charles M....

This interview may seem a bit strange, since I composed the whole thing. Still, your nomination to the Supreme Court raises some...

First lesson from 2020: We cannot protect what we have without protecting what we share. In Southern Oregon, fires destroyed the small...

We are in trouble. Is it “good trouble” as advocated by John Lewis, or some other kind? Are we heading toward something like the...

If you are a true believer, or maybe even a person with a lively imagination, it’s not that hard to think that the fires, floods, and...

If reparations are necessary, then they are the only way to change the current course of “American Prosperity,” if I may use that term to...

Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” That was in 1933, at the depth of the Depression, and he...

Instead of saying “consider the source” when we hear something strange, we could also say “consider the context. While the first option...

If you were visiting from almost anywhere, you would want to know why we have over 154,000 coronavirus deaths. One answer is the lack of...

There’s a battle going on, that’s for sure, but is it for the “Soul of America” as Joe Biden has suggested? Let’s do what we can to get...

Sometimes “we cannot just get along” because we don’t see a deeper mutuality that underlies our conflict. And sometimes, we become so...

The basic premise of this Project, as you might have guessed, is that we are living in a climate of injustice. If you ever wondered if...

Good question. But not really answerable until we know who or what is included in the “this.” In fact, you could probably do a bias...

education for white people

True, the deaths of over 100,000 persons offers us a good picture of Trump’s America, especially when we know that thousands could have...

When I was a kid on our family farm in Nebraska, my brother and I made sure that my calf would grow up to become a well-fed cow. Raising...

We all know that people read books from their own perspective, but with Frank B. Wilderson III’s book, Afropessimism, I am fully aware of...

What does the term “concentration camp” bring to mind? What about “Internment camp” or “re-education center”? Is the word “plantation”...

The epidemic continues to challenge our thinking and feelings about our understanding of ourselves. Sickness and death, of course, are...

It’s not clear what question Michael Moore’s new film, “Planet of the Humans” is trying to answer, but a good guess would be that it is a...