Look Back | The Overlooked Part of Christmas Story

Look Back | The Overlooked Part of Christmas Story

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Civil Dissent: Can US Politics Return To It?

Civil Dissent: Can US Politics Return To It?

A young woman I know, a middle-schooler, has named her new kitten after Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She learned about Ginsburg when she read a children’s book about her: I Dissent (more on that later). The girl became a fan, and now the cat is named “Ruthie.” I can’t think...
I Dissent: RBG’s Legacy of Defending the Powerless

I Dissent: RBG’s Legacy of Defending the Powerless

On the autumnally crisp morning of Saturday, Sept. 19 – just hours after we were gutted by the news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had lost her most recent bout with cancer – my boyfriend and I biked the short distance from my Washington condominium to the Supreme...

Managing Dissent

The Democratic National Convention in Boston last week was devoid of drama. The nominees were already decided, and there was no fierce floor fighting over the party platform. Everything was a done deal before the first red, white, or blue balloon was inflated. The...

Not a Time for Silencing Dissent

As a Christian and a Baptist, protest is my middle name—as in Protestant. We have as part of our spiritual DNA a history of dissenting against the majority opinion. In the 16th century we dissented against the hegemony of the Church in England insisting on the right...