This is NOT Blue Apron
The current occupant of the White House has a new plan to feed poor people: Send them boxes of […]
Listen to the voices rarely heard
I learned an important lesson last night. I learned that sometimes we need to set aside the rules and […]
Nobody wants a handout. Nobody.
I have no tolerance for mean-spiritedness. That’s why I don’t read the comments on social-justice articles, especially when I’ve written […]
Step up or shut up
Yesterday’s Women’s March in Asheville was enormous — by all reports, as big as last year’s (I was in Washington […]
Why NOT Oprah for president?
I don’t want Oprah to run for president. I know, I know, now you think I’m being racist, […]
All I want for Christmas is social and economic justice
This is not a joyous day for too many of us. Some of us are without loved ones, perhaps for […]
Now let’s get to work
The defeat of Roy Moore is not some huge, history-altering victory. Never has a major political party put up […]
The Democratic Party needs to come back to us
I have taken a lot of heat over my decision to leave the Democratic Party. There have been pleas […]
I am leaving the Democratic Party. Here’s why.
I am done. I stayed when the Democrats refused to push for a single-payer health care system because they didn’t […]
We can’t go much lower
The level of hypocrisy is breathtaking. Republicans say Al Franken needs to resign because he may have kissed women […]