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Longing for the Days of Civil Politics Jul. 19, 2024
While I was watching the ongoing news reports on the assassination attempt of former President Donal... Read More
Trump Gets a Lifeline, Squanders It Jul. 19, 2024
MILWAUKEE — Since a would-be assassin tried to kill former President Donald Trump during a cam... Read More
A Solar Eclipse for the Common Good Apr. 10, 2024
I left the house at high noon. Outdoors, Washington dressed in light spring green with splashes of ... Read More
Beyond Fate: How America Can Fulfill Its Destiny and Illuminate the Path to a Better World May. 04, 2023
America is a land of prosperity; a shining beacon of light that illuminates an otherwise dark world ... Read More
Democrats Must Stop Dividing Our Country Nov. 02, 2022
As Democrats see the likelihood of the House and the Senate shifting to Republican control, they hav... Read More
It's All About the Midterms Sep. 16, 2022
What's gotten better in America since Joe Biden took office? It's hard to come up with a list. The e... Read More
Biden Deepens the Divide in America Aug. 31, 2022
President Joe Biden is set to address the nation in a prime-time televised speech Thursday night in ... Read More
How, When, Do We Come Together Again? Aug. 16, 2022
When 30 FBI agents showed up at Mar-a-Lago to cart off boxes of documents, it was an authorized, leg... Read More
How History Will View the Biden Years Apr. 15, 2022
When historians study the disaster that was the Biden administration, they will find many factors th... Read More
This Black History Month, Let's Make History Feb. 24, 2022
As we celebrate Black History Month and the great accomplishments of African Americans to the United... Read More
Family, Pfizer, Zoom and Other Things I'm Grateful For Nov. 26, 2021
Each year at Thanksgiving, before tucking into the feast, we go around the table and express gratitu... Read More
And Then We All Watched Walter Cronkite ... Oct. 02, 2021
What happened? How was it that what we once celebrated — the triumph of vaccines, those cups o... Read More
Biden's Promise To Unite the US Is a Dismal Failure Sep. 23, 2021
President Joe Biden's administration is now defined by soaring COVID-19 numbers, a botched Afghanist... Read More
COVID-19 Could Have Been Our Unifying Moment Sep. 17, 2021
We blew it. And at this point, I'm not interested in pointing fingers and declaring who's at fault o... Read More
Who and What Is Tearing the US Apart? Sep. 14, 2021
In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, former President George W. Bush's theme was national unit... Read More
20 Years after 9/11 -- Are We Better Off? Sep. 10, 2021
When the hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that first 9... Read More
Unworthy of 9/11 Sep. 10, 2021
Because I was working in a newsroom on the day and because I'm a newspaper columnist, it's expected ... Read More
From 9/11 Unity to Pandemic Division Sep. 08, 2021
The 21st century in America has so far been bracketed by two terrible mass-casualty events. The firs... Read More
US Embraces a Diversity China Fears Aug. 17, 2021
The first returns from the delayed census of 2020 are in, and they have made for celebratory headlin... Read More
Biden Could Do More to Unify the Country Apr. 30, 2021
Among right-wingers, there has been some delight about polls showing that Joe Biden's popularity at ... Read More
