The world is in a state of decisive flux. By that I mean, twenty-five years from now we might look back and say that’s when everything changed in a big way. That’s where and when the shift happened. 2022. The conversation is rooted in the unfinished business of the last…

(Cheyenne, Wyoming) — The defeat of Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Republican congressional primary shows just how troubled our country is two months before the next congressional election and two years before the next presidential election. It is sick with disinformation. Voters have been fed countless lies by Republican politicians…

The historian Michael Beschloss recently said, when it comes to the American presidency, “there are all the other presidents and then there’s Donald Trump.” The 45th president is in a category of his own and it is not one to which any president should aspire. Even Trump’s supporters will often…

In May, in the space of two weeks, two shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas took thirty-one lives. Nineteen of the victims, in Texas, were school children. The shootings led to expressions of outrage, words of compassion for the victims and their families and a mostly typical debate…

As the United States enters a new phase in the debate over abortion rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has effectively re-ordered the argument, but the ensuing debate also points a way toward compromise. Here’s my view of that path.

An empty outdoor table on a spring day in New York City can be just a table, or the setting for a story. ~ It was the first warm day of the first spring toward the end of the pandemic. Alyson carried a small wicker basket filled with cloth napkins…

We would all benefit from a little less story telling and a little more news from the world of journalism. It is very difficult to tell someone in journalism how to do their job. It’s almost impossible. Any criticism is seen as an affront. Any suggestion is greeted with indignation…

Now is the time to say, No! Now is the time to say, Stop! It makes sense to approach the war in Ukraine with the goal of ending the Russian invasion without provoking a world war. But we should recognize we are already in a world war and one side…

Entering year three of the pandemic, New York City appears to be transitioning toward a post mask era, but we have been close before. Here’s the story.