Category: journalism
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Regardless of whether people favor or abhor the current actions of the Trump administration, three facts are undeniable. While these facts, reported by universally respected news outlets, might lead to results that please some people (shuttering various agencies, gutting regulations that feel constraining to corporations), the broader outcome should worry all Americans. If this president…
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So many people — ordinary people, not big names — make the place they live a little bit better. I want to emulate them. There are millions all over the world. Here are seven, a few I know well, a few I’ve come across recently. If you want to feel hopeful, I suggest going on…
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When I was a paid laborer, I set an alarm and woke up to the radio, a news program every morning. I liked it better than the pulsing of an alarm, that warm articulate voice bringing the news of the day. Then came the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. It took me, perhaps, a few…