The Age of Neo-Feudalism: A Government of the Rich, by the Rich, and for the Corporations
The pomp and circumstance of the presidential inauguration has died down. Members of Congress have taken their seats on Capitol…
Choking on a Dream
I just like imagining somebody choking to the tune of Jock Jams. Is there something wrong with that? If so,…
The Only One
Ever took the stairs slowly, each step getting a bit harder than the last to hoist up her hundred-pound body.…
Sleeping Through a Revolution: It’s Time for President Obama to Wake Up to the True Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
As one who came of age during the civil rights era, I was profoundly impacted by the life and teachings…
A Beleaguered Search
I hardly knew my old friends; nevertheless, when they said they were coming I felt obliged, from the same sense…
Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State
If you want a recipe for disaster, take police officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of…
North Korea in Fiction and as Fiction
It is perhaps easy for Hollywood to portray North Korea as a fictional enemy when so much of North Korea’s…
The Ploughman
Hoof beats echoed through the gentle rain and brought the ploughman to his senses. He sighed and let the soil…
The Magician’s Con: Renewing FISA and the NDAA Under Cover of the Fiscal Cliff Debates
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind…