by Jack Moline | Sep 6, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The public library in Wilmette, Illinois, had a small collection of 8mm films available to borrow. Like every other middle-class family in the 1960s, we had a projector on which to watch the growing collection of home movies that featured silent figures waving at the...
by Wendell Griffen | Aug 31, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Maina Mwaura recently wrote an article about Cornel West’s campaign to become President of the United States. If you haven’t already read it, I invite you to do so. After you’ve read the article, will you share it? Will you invite others to think aloud with you...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 29, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
White Americanized Christians are easily seduced. They are drawn in large numbers to authoritarian personalities like squirrels to a freshly-filled bird feeder. Some slick-talking autocrat can stir up fear — and then offer himself as the one to save them from it. And...
by Colin Harris | Aug 24, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
“Betraying the public trust” is a phrase long used to describe persons who have acted contrary to the confidence and intentions of those who put them in a place to do so. It can happen in large “publics” like national life, and in small ones, like a church, club, or...
by Linda Cross | Aug 16, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The first time I worked as an election worker was the 1960 presidential primary. I passed out flyers for a Republican congressional candidate outside Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. It was a deep dive into the rigors of losing campaigns. Over the next several...
