Preserving American Values

Why is our society, our world, ignoring the warnings of climate change, destroying our environment, creating ever-larger inequality even as ...

My fellow Democratic colleague: In 2004, I warned in my book, We Still Hold These Truths, that our democracy was being attacked from within....

Over the course of almost 250 years, American democracy has often been a raucous place, both at the level of the citizenry and elected offic...

We as a society/culture are very future-oriented.   Why?   Because we feel the future holds the promise of having better lives, often throug...

For years now, it's been a common experience to hear of people, even politicians, boast of being reborn; that they have a personal relat...

This post is not about the last 20 years in Afghanistan and all the wrong policies that have been implemented.   Nor is it about the fact th...

Where is Trump when you need him?   Did I really say that? Unfortunately, yes.  There is only one person who could convince most of the rest...