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01 August 2013
Reverence for Garbage
Robert Koehler
“My life would be worthless without music,” the girl said.

And the music came, up from the garbage, through her hands and heart and out to the...
27 July 2013
The Founding Contradiction
Robert Koehler
How many years are we away from a national apology over slavery?

Wait, scratch that word, “apology.” Too late, not possible. The scope of the...
17 July 2013
Embedded Racism
Robert Koehler
Did the ghosts of our slave-holding and Jim Crow past high-five each other in the Florida courtroom on Saturday? George Zimmerman was acquitted, but does that...
13 July 2013
Privacy, Security and Sanity
Robert Koehler
What I keep longing to hear, in the hemorrhaging national debate about Edward Snowden, whistleblowing and the NSA, is some acknowledgment of what the word “...
27 June 2013
The Naked Empire
Robert Koehler
America, America . . .

Certainly Edward Snowden’s crime is one of public relations. In this day and age, power ain’t just jackboots, tanks and...
14 June 2013
For All Children Everywhere
Robert Koehler
We can end war.

Please, before you read on, let those four words float in silence for half a minute, until you actually hear them - until they...

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