Some Tenets of Healthy Democracies
All I could think after hearing journalist John Nichols and economist Robert McChesney—the pair are on a book tour that included a stop at the University of Massachusetts—describe the peril of journalism’s infrastructure was this: our country has...Happy Birthday
Two years ago, early morning, our daughter was born. We’d spirited ourselves to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, because her mom (first/birth/mom) was in labor there. All births are surreal in some sense, and super-real in another. What science fiction...A Call for Stories
At the core of my belief system is an outsized faith in the power of stories. I say outsized only because it sounds grandiose to say that I’m hanging my hat on stories. Stories are so ephemeral, so intangible. Surely, I could come up with something more solid....Blanket Problem
It does not seem that a little thing like a blanket should set me reeling. Yet, there I was reading about American Airlines charging people eight bucks to use a blanket on the airplane (oh, they toss in a pillow, too) and I found myself spiraling into a little eddy of...E-Edition
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