The first few months of Trump 2.0 have been a cascade of cruelty, both verbal and physical. More on the varieties of that cruelty below, but the headline-grabbing moment recently was when Iowa Senator Joni Ernst’s replied at a Town Hall to an anguished woman. Ernst...
85,000 citizens of El Salvador have been imprisoned, most of them without fair trials. In a May 20 broadcast of The World (from PRX), Marco Werman interviews Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal, the Salvadoran human rights group. Werman and Bullock talk...
In 1957, Senator John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book,Profiles in Courage, about U.S. politicians who took courageous stands to do what was right, not just what was expedient. It was not a huge book; only eight US Senators were profiled for their...
Like Donald J. Trump, the new Pope is a U.S. citizen. And possibly both may have once dreamed of becoming the Pope. But with that, the similarities come to an end. Yesterday, the Papal conclave chose Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American who has spent...
Warren Buffet, “The Oracle of Omaha,” finally retired as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. He was an avowed capitalist and someone who invested more wisely and more profitably than anyone else in the last 50 years. In 1964, if you had invested $100.00 with him...
