As the Trump presidency digs its claws into the country – winner take all! – I look on in terrified amazement as he begins arrogantly instituting what can...
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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22 January 2025
And now Trump consciousness purports to claim – or reclaim – control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one else, damnit...
15 January 2025
Uh oh, nukes coming in. Should we retaliate?
This strikes me as the stupidest question a human being could ask – and, just possibly, also the last....
08 January 2025
“I left you for God, Daddy.”
Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man – a dad – imagining the...
01 January 2025
I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture, rape and,...
25 December 2024
Dig, ponder, dig some more.
A year ago I wrote a column about some of the early moments of my growing up – not just memories but profound...