Mexico seemed to be what was called a failed state. The government had lost control of its country.
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Smarter Sentencing Act Passes Senate Judicial Committee
The bill is the product of an uncommon alliance of senators who don't often agree on much.
Read More »How To Be Properly Outraged (Thank You, Pete Seeger)
Sing or write out your outrage as Pete Seeger and Jon Krakauer did. In this high-tech world, we may “unlike” or block someone on Facebook or Twitter as enough of a statement. It isn’t.
Read More »“Never Again” in an Age of Indifference: In Remembrance of the Six Million
Yom Hashoah is about remembering the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, but its commemoration means so much more.
Read More »The Childfree Holiday Letter
Another highlight of the summer was when Gary's niece visited and we took her to see Wicked on Broadway. She's ten, or thirteen, or something.
Read More »Talking to the Online Dead
Maybe a new form of worship of the dead is coming into being, born of technology that keeps the dead present and in some sense alive on our screens.
Read More »Walter Cronkite and the Summer of ’69: A Reflection
The convergence of time and events as we remember Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)and Apollo 11's historic mission to the moon.
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