After Corrupt Trump was elected, I was under shock. How could people vote for this man? He stands for everything I dislike – and seems to clearly violate American values (not to mention norms and laws). I held on to …
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I sent the following letter to my Senators and the Senate minority leader. Please withhold consent from the Trump administration! As Adam Jentleson, former deputy chief of staff to Sen. Harry Reid, pointed out in an article in the Washington …
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Seventy-two years today, Auschwitz was liberated. Two years ago, I visited the memorial sites in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The images from that visit are haunting me during this time of a resurgence of the fascist populism that ended up with …
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As others have pointed out, there are many causes that led us to the disaster we’re in now. The two most influential factors might be gerrymandering and voter suppression. According to David Daley, the Republicans realized after Obama won that …
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Sophie Scholl Janusz Korczak Rosa Luxemburg and all the others who resisted quietly and not so quietly, you were my childhood heroes. I will now try to honor your example by continuing your resistance against fascism. I will not go …
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Maybe the most stressful part of this transition period is all the uncertainty. Since this isn’t a normal transition of power, given the president-elects authoritarianism, we don’t know if the 2016 election was our last real election (although it was …
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