While our European friends looked on appalled, our House of Representatives  (which, with the Senate, makes up Congress) was without...

Is there a way out of the climate crisis and could planetary intelligence be the answer? For years now, I...

I never had a visitor to my river cabin who left the same person who arrived.   Whatever their delight...

Human history has been tragically marred by our presumption that understanding a problem with our brains means that we will...

After years of tax breaks for the wealthy and deregulation of corporations, accompanied by low wages for labor and huge...

What use are environmental ethics in a world of economic self-interest? Do you live in a world of greed but...

In both American and European political life, we have separated ourselves into stubborn tribal enclaves. Having set up positions from...

I live in a suburb of Detroit, in southeastern Michigan.   For many years, large swathes of Detroit have been...

With national politics mired in partisan gridlock, American communities invent solutions to hunger and nutrition problems.  The links between schools...

The midterm elections in America are held halfway through the four years of a President’s term, and, since 1945, have...

America is in the grip of a strange love affair with doomerism despite the good news about the economy and...

After years and years of cranking ingredients into the political sausage maker by lobbying our Members of Congress, sending endless...