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A World’s Soul in Tatters

“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...

10.01.2025 3

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Finding a Cure for Humanity’s Cancer

I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture,...

03.01.2025 2

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Growing Up Means Claiming Your Own Mind

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...

27.12.2024 4

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Our Right to Sing — and Create the Future

You may not have noticed this. The world “celebrated” International Human Rights Day the other day, even as wars across the planet continued, bombs...

13.12.2024 6

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Can Politics Merge with a Sane Future?

America is for Americans – Americans only!” The words are those of Stephen Miller, speaking last month at the infamous Madison Square Garden rally,...

21.11.2024 3

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The Nation Just Lost the Election

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...

13.11.2024 3

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A Terrifying Choice Awaits Us

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,...

04.11.2024 6

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Creating Human Garbage

“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...

01.11.2024 5

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War’s Victims Speak the Deepest Truth

“The past carries unforgettable trauma and pain across the land and among generations of refugees; yet we choose to transform victimhood into...

18.10.2024 2

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Voting Beyond Our Pseudo-Democracy

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...

30.09.2024 30

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Transcending the God of War

“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...

23.09.2024 40

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Creating Art: If It’s Fun, It’s Alive

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...

20.09.2024 3

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