Israel’s assault on Gaza proceeds unabated, and upward of 2 million Gaza citizens are experiencing severe food and medicine deprivation, with hundreds of thousands, including children, now fully starving. The U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has taken over distribution of food and medicine but, in close collaboration with the Israeli government and the […]

Hats off to the Maine Sunday Telegram for its excellent coverage of the massive, nationwide June 14 protests. The national media, both print and televised, really dropped the ball. They seriously underreported the protests. Are they afraid of offending President Trump? The focus on L.A. was misplaced. The more important story was that millions of […]

For months, I watched with growing horror as threats to our democracy multiplied. Was our country truly unraveling, heading toward fear, ignorance, nastiness and depleted resources? Were we on the brink of an America unrecognizable from the democracy I’d always lived in and, frankly, taken for granted? I admired the resistance: politicians, journalists, historians, lawyers. […]