In the Donald Trump era — praise be! — so much is possible that previously no one had ever even imagined. For instance, not only has “the late, great...
Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.
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17 December 2025
I stare blankly at the news. Little men with guns once again stir the country – the world – into a state of shock and grief and chaos. Attention: Every last...
10 December 2025
“Kill them all!”
You have a problem with that? What are you, some kind of unmanly wimp? Pete Hegseth spits in your face.
Let me catch my breath...
19 November 2025
I dedicate this question, which is at the core of the book with which I am struggling, to Donald Trump.
When we think of power, the word itself...
13 November 2025
It occurs to me that “giving birth to the future” isn’t simply a metaphor.
I say this as I continue wrestling with infinity – that is to say, working...
05 November 2025
Let him rest in . . . peace?
I don’t know. The irony of those words is a little too much for me to grasp as I sit here contemplating the death of...