The day after John McCain died, I happened to visit a memorial to Confederate prisoners of war at Point Lookout, Maryland. Flying a Confederate flag overhead, the monument seemly ironically features a quote at the base from Maya Angelou. I realized there the way I...
There were some lovely, moving moments in the memorial service of Concepcion Picciotto at Luther's Place Church on Saturday. Concepcion is known – with William Thomas, who died a few years ago – for leading what is apparently the longest protest in U.S....
At first I thought it ironic that Saturday's Republican debate happened in the "Peace Center" in Greenville, South Carolina. But perhaps that had a positive effect. Actually, no. For the discerning listener, Donald Trump has been critical of...
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, some of us tried to raise questions of U.S. foreign policy. I got my mic cut on O’Reilly’s show. Others got far worse – a friend basically felt he had to move out of his neighborhood he was so reviled for criticizing...
On Tuesday, at a rare joint session of Congress for a foreign leader, members of Congress will clap hands raw for Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel—a nation many members of Congress are incapable of speaking simple truths about. The upshot of the...
