All of a sudden, breathless talk about the dangers and opportunities of artificial intelligence is sweeping the globe. Almost overnight, the powerful technology that will bring revolutionary change – mostly for the good, we were told — has shown another side: a capability for unimaginable societal upheaval unless it’s restrained. It would be tempting to ...
Over the last 24 hours, I found myself despairing for our country’s future thanks to the unrelenting flow of distressing news. No, I don’t think the United States will cease to exist. Rather, I think it may cease to exist as a nation with any moral standing. Three stories pushed me over the edge. ...
“This is a victory 10 years in the making,” Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, told Fox News on Thursday. “We can finally remove these Haitian illegal migrants from the United States.” — New York Times, June 26, 2026, after the U.S. Supreme Court stripped Haitians of Temporary Protective Status Donald Trump ...
Note to Reader: As usual this post is edited by my life-long friend and professional journalist, Fitz McAden. However I am constrained by honesty to add that he should really be viewed as the co-author of this particular piece. As the much-ballyhooed 250th anniversary of the United States draws near, the landscape of the ...
Note to reader: This post and the last one on racism in the states of the Confederacy have been published without having been edited by my distinquished colleague and life-long friend Fitz McAden. Fitz and his wife Jill are away on a month long luxury Grand Tour of Europe. So any misspellings, poor punctuation, errors ...
As a child of the South, I learned early on about the Lost Cause myth, except I didn’t know it was a myth. And I watched Jim Crow laws and customs subjugate the descendants of those my ancestors and many others had enslaved. And, as I have written before, it took me a long time ...
Isaiah 2:4–5 (NKJV) . . . They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. — Isaiah 2:4 I used to read The New York Times Sunday Opinion section pretty thoroughly, but in the past ...
PROLOGUE I wrote the blog below late last week and didn’t submit it for editing until April 6 because of Holy Week and Easter. It explains why I think Trump felt free to attack Iran almost 6 weeks ago. Over the weekend, we saw an alarming escalation of war mongering by Trump — not ...
Donald Trump was well into his second term when I realized — belatedly — how effectively he and his puppet masters have used a strategy they devised to fool us. They called it flooding the zone; I call it political trickery. Trump crony Steve Bannon is widely credited with inventing it to advance the goals ...
Late in January, we learned that the National Park Service had begun to dismantle exhibits at the President’s House in Philadelphia. The exhibits honored nine enslaved people kept at the house by George Washington while he was president. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Trump and his lackey, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, had ordered all displays ...
