As election 2020 draws ever closer, the flawed, easily gamed nature of the American quasi-democracy becomes increasingly visible, thanks, of course to...
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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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24 July 2020
Here’s a quietly unsettling moment from the current cries for change churning across the nation:
A teenage girl is at a grocery store in the small...
16 July 2020
“There are so many . . . primitive tribes — they don’t understand anything.”
The global movement to end racism must turn its attention to the world’s...
09 July 2020
Change. Now.
I get that, and understand the symbolism of packed heat. A gun says: We mean business. But that symbolism stops as soon as the trigger...
01 July 2020
Topple a few statues, remove some iconic names from American institutions . . . and the ghosts of the past start to escape from history, filling the present...
25 June 2020
Maybe CHOP won’t last, but something is changing. Our national groupthink, as maintained with such stalwart certainty over the last half century by...