“It’s a free country.” Most of us heard this growing up, but few of us understood the First Amendment, and its generosity toward outright inflammatory lying. Whatever the merits of “America’s Mayor,” Rudy Giuliani, he has done our democracy and electoral...
The Grand Old Party and the Senate Majority Leader position themselves as great patriots, defenders of “freedom” and “the American Way.” Certainly President Trump has (literally) wrapped his arms around the flag in ways that his followers adore, for Republicans...
Ashvegas is a moniker that residents of Asheville N.C. have used for several years. I’m not sure why, or why “North Cackalacky” is a long-standing nickname for the Old North State. https://www.wfdd.org/story/carolina-curious-who-put-cackalacky-north-carolina I was a...
At a time when some of our lowest paid workers are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, with the U.S. being hit particularly hard, a huge and historic bailout bill was hammered out by Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Time was of the...
Ethics and the Coronavirus When I was just 4 years old, in 1953, my sister and I lined up at the public library to get our polio vaccine in little sugar cubes. One of the girls in our first grade had crutches from her bout with polio, but otherwise we were spared from...
