This essay was previously published on Rebelle Society. Outside, the fast-moving clouds are breaking as the soft morning light falls over the grass and trees and old courtyard buildings that line the street. I crack the window open for the first time in months and the embryonic spring air wafts in. It’s early, just after sunrise,
Category: Politics
Published on Common Dreams (Jan. 24, 2017). As someone once said, a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts its boots on. In the 2016 presidential election, right-wing billionaire Donald Trump’s lies may have carried him as far as the White House, but with this past weekend’s global Women’s March on
As the Obama presidency draws to a close, I repost this early article on his political rise from the August-September 2008 issue of the South African magazine, Amandla! This review, co-written with my friend and collaborator Carl Finamore, focuses largely on Obama’s foreign policy views. One issue I further addressed last year in “Drones and the
My first introduction to Donald Trump as a public figure took place in the early 1990s. At the time I was working as an editor for a non-profit association in Chicago. Trump was already a well-known public figure, but not one I had paid much attention to. One day an editor I worked with came
[This short Father’s Day essay was originally published in The Pantagraph (June 15, 2008). I also recorded an audio version for the children’s educational program, Kids Talk Radio, hosted by Bob Barboza from Long Beach, California.] When I was a small boy, I sometimes used to climb to the top of the street pole that stood next to the
