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“I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man – a dad – imagining...
I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture,...
Dig, ponder, dig some more. A year ago I wrote a column about some of the early moments of my growing up – not just memories but profound moments...
You may not have noticed this. The world “celebrated” International Human Rights Day the other day, even as wars across the planet continued, bombs...
America is for Americans – Americans only!” The words are those of Stephen Miller, speaking last month at the infamous Madison Square Garden rally,...
I guess I’d call the Trump victory an “expected” shock. In the deepest core of my being, I was unhappy with virtually everything about the...
Early voting’s underway. My voting site is the Willye White Park fieldhouse, a mile north of where I live — a place I have enormous affection for,...
“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the ocean. Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” This...
“The past carries unforgettable trauma and pain across the land and among generations of refugees; yet we choose to transform victimhood into...
Is it possible to expand the stakes of this election beyond the nation’s two-party pseudo-democracy? I have to write this. I have to express...
“The man suspected in the incident . . . camped outside the golf course in West Palm Beach with food and a rifle for nearly 12 hours, according to...
As I trek toward the Great Unknown, as life’s struggles seem to intensify, some odd questions keep recurring. Art — what is it again? Why does it...