I’ll keep it short today. Courtesy of the CDC, I shall now list the 19 safest American states – those with the highest percentage of citizens who are fully vaccinated against Covid, the states you might well feel most comfortable visiting this summer. Your...
I must warn you in advance that this is not satire. This news is real: Yesterday, the Republican governor of Texas signed a law creating “The 1836 Project,” a feat of “patriotic education” that will celebrate the purportedly glorious founding...
June 6 marks the death of Robert F. Kennedy, who succumbed to an assassin’s bullet during his quixotic quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. Would he have succeeded? Would he have beaten Richard Nixon? As president would he have healed a nation torn...
Texas writer Larry McMurtry once observed, “It’s a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.” True words. And let’s put our hands together for the Texas high school kid who has now highlighted one particular hardship foisted on the women...
Two years ago I read The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead’s novel about a notorious school for African-American boys. It was inspired – if that’s the right word – by the true-life story of the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, a place...
