Preserving American Values

There are many reasons why our country is dysfunctional today on so many levels.   Most have to do with the nature of our culture,...

What a travesty when the elected leader of our country shows no leadership.   Instead, his every action is determined by whether or how it ...

W. E. Du Bois, in his classic The Souls of Black Folk (1903) , stated that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the col...

The current crop of Republicans, a radical, rabidly conservative group, take as their jumping off point a very unnuanced view of the Consti...

I often have asked myself why, given the huge income inequality that exists in the US, the wage stagnation that has left most middle-class ...

We have become so accustomed to the extreme polarization of our country that began in earnest during Clinton’s second term and has gone off...

Over the past 30-40 years, the Religious Right has gone from total noninvolvement with politics to total involvement to partial domination....

As we celebrate this July 4 th , the state of our republic is troubled. Two core principles of American democracy are under attack … the r...

Man is by nature concerned solely with his and his family's wellbeing. That is his biological imperative.  Socially, however, man ha...

If ever there was a time for the silent majority to rise up and let itself be heard, it is now.   The loudest group in the United States...