| Nov 11, 2015 | Food / FarmingThe leaves are changing colors and the air is getting crisp. As we settle into fall, Americans take time to reflect on what they’re thankful for. Like many folks, I’ve got plenty of gratitude for the most important meal I’ll eat this month. Sweet...
| | Rights / DemocracyWe’re officially just under a year away from Election Day 2016. We’ve already been bombarded for months with red-hot anti-tax, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, and anti-poor rhetoric from a fool’s dozen Republican candidates. Can we really take another 12 months of...
| | Peace / SecurityI go to a lot of Major League Baseball games. I really love the sport. Yet if you’ve been to a baseball game in the last decade, you’ve probably noticed some changes. National Guard members now perform flag ceremonies between innings. Military recruits are enlisted...
| | Peace / SecuritySandra Bullock’s latest film flopped. And it deserved to — but not only because of its inability to entertain. A comic political drama based on a documentary of the same name, Our Brand Is Crisis is a fictionalized retelling of how U.S. political consultants got...
| Nov 10, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyIn today’s so-called “democratic” election process, Big Money doesn’t talk, it roars — usually drowning out the people’s voice. Bizarrely, the Supreme Court decreed in its 2010 Citizens United ruling that money is a form of “free speech.” Thus, declared...