Newark Whether Trump is on the air talking about meeting with Kanye or some other distraction, the scrolls across CNN in the airport are in capital letters: WIDESPREAD, CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE ACROSS FLORIDA PANHANDLE. The eyebrow above the headline says simply: Hurricane Michael. The reports indicated that this was the worse storm to hit the Florida …
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Historical Amnesia, Citizenship and Crisis
Denver Visiting with historians at Oregon State University who were trying to get a grip on what is happening in the US and the world today and how it lines up with other epochs was a fascinating experience. In this country, and so much of the world, the contemporary focus seems to dwell on the …
Republicans May Capture the Court, but Lose a Generation of Women & Religious
New Orleans It’s appalling to read almost anything about Judge Kavanagh and the relentless, tone deaf efforts of the Republican majority in the Senate to push through his nomination. Even as hearings loom and his victim negotiates to come forward, there is a tragic sense of inevitability shrouding this nomination that now reduces the country …