On July 18, 2020 we lost two valiant men—Rev. C.T. Vivian and representative John Lewis--icons of the civil rights movement, but so much mor

When I contemplate the failure of our Republican leaders and at least 40 percent of our population to take the imminent threat of climate...

Exposing as it has the deep faults in the way we conduct our lives, the corona virus crisis should be a wakeup call: a wakeup to the need...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my husband and I visited our daughter, who teaches at a branch of the University of Wisconsin in Stevens...

There was something surreal about the president announcing that he had just launched a heavy airstrike against militants in Syria – in...

President Obama’s decision to use his executive authority to cut carbon emissions from coal-fired plants is welcome, if long overdue....

Freda was never “mother” or “mom.” She refused the appellation, didn’t believe in families, rebelled against the role and would always...

What if climate change were a foreign enemy that had declared it would destroy civilization as we know it and we had only five to...

The latest report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms what is manifest to all but those...

Congress’s year-end slashing of food stamps and refusal to extend unemployment benefits for the 1.3 million people whose benefits were ...

The severe droughts now affecting California and the Colorado River basin suggest that we may be at a tipping point in our ability to ...

Writing in the New York Times recently, art critic Holland Cotter lamented the fact that the current billionaire-dominated market system,...

Recent reports that Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing to create an agency-wide focus on global warming with the goal of leading...

On December 9, 2013, at more than 100 sites across the country, teachers, parents, students and labor and community allies rallied in a...

The evolving Occupy Wall Street movement continues to confound and surprise even its ardent supporters. Two days after Mayor Bloomberg’s...

A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? . . . Jesus said to him, You know the commandments . ....

To the superficial eye Liberty Park (Zucotti Park) in lower Manhattan is a circus—a mass of people all packed together in one rather...