For the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza, particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans, displaying a blend of emotions that centers on two core principles: grief and defiance...
22 October 2025
Shouts and honking horns . . . and a country being born?
Hey, hey, ho, ho . . . I don’t know. it’s been four days ago, as I write, that the second No Kings rally was held across the country – across the world. I can still hear the...
22 October 2025
In case you have never heard the name "Valetina Gomez" before, she is a 26 y/o Columbian immigrant and a right-wing extremist Republican candidate for Secretary of State in Missouri who faced a resounding defeat in the primary election...
21 October 2025
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people?
Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the...
18 October 2025
There's nothing more inflaming to the souls of Arab and Muslim Americans than seeing US officials treating them as they are less American.
Case in point:
Mohammed Ibrahim, a 115 y/o American citizen from Palm Bay, Florida,...
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