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With the retirement of senior Associate Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the chance of the United States finding itself at the mercy of the dark side of its collective psyche is terrifyingly real. With a second Trump appointee on the bench, a Tea Party-Moral Majority-Sagebrush Rebellion Supreme Court could pile up xenophobic, misogynistic and homophobic […]

Does America look like a proto-neo-Nazi state? Does it seem like some foreign power is yanking our chain and messing with the honest dialogue and exchange of views, not to mention our inviolable voting rights, that still makes our Democracy work in the sense of a peaceful transfer of power at the appropriate times? Are […]

Separating immigrant children from their families to prove a point and stalling for decades on national legislation to help diminish the traumatizing impact of climate change on cities around the country and the world both stem from a conservative bias against regular, everyday human beings. It’s a bias that allows them to use what power […]

When you think about the act of “self-pardoning,” as in President Trump’s assertion that he has the “absolute right” to get away with anything he wants to because the office of president is “sacred,” as his lawyers contend, it doesn’t take long to arrive at the bottom-line conclusion: self pardoning is what all mafia dons […]

If you are angry — knowing anger at injustice and cruel stupidity is not a moral fault — you have to find your inspiration for action wherever it appears. For me, when all else fails, I turn to Albert Camus. And this moment in history, six short months from a national midterm election, we are […]

Seemingly right out of the blue, New Mexicans are facing the chilling possibility that despite their protestations, as much as half of the nation’s highly dangerous spent nuclear fuel rods might be “temporarily” stored (for many decades) at a site somewhere between Carlsbad and Hobbs, operated by the New Jersey firm Holtec International. And in […]

[For Young Writers and Artists Trying to Keep Afloat]   SQUANDERING It’s the fulfillment of whims, the robotic gushing of money, of time spurting out, cascading, vanishing for nothing as if you will always have enough of everything—you’re just a programmed culprit of what you abhor, a modified spigot that won’t turn off, trained by […]