At my daughter’s elementary school, every child learns three things from the first day of kindergarten on: “Be kind and respectful. Be responsible. Be safe.” These principles inform every aspect of school life, creating a caring atmosphere that’s one of the reasons I love her school and want to send her back in person this […]
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One of the things I’ve learned, as I’ve become more politically engaged the past four years, is just how important local elected officials are. It’s primary time here in Arizona, so I thought I’d talk about why a few of the most-overlooked, county-level offices on the ballot matter in all communities, as well as giving
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Walking through my neighborhood, mask covering more than half my face, it felt like surely everyone I walked past was staring at me.
Because as powerful as the “I Have a Dream” speech is, many of Martin Luther King, Jr’s other words were powerful, too. “A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, ‘This way of settling differences is not just.’ This business of burning human beings with napalm, of
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This year, Let’s not stop with casting Bread onto the water, Our stale old sins Confessed and forgotten. This year, Let’s cast the water, too, Cast it so far the river sinks Beneath the dusty earth, So far the sand Bakes into clay and shatters. So far, To parched lands where Thirsty travelers pray, Not
Puzzled by the president’s recent interest in purchasing Greenland? Yeah, me too. Fortunately, the internet is a veritable treasure trove of inaccurate unreliable poorly-sourced easy-to-find information, and it was but the work of a few minutes and one too many blue raspberry Eegees to track down the top reasons Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. It’s
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In 1903 Emma Lazarus famously wrote “The New Colossus,” a poem the Statue of Liberty that concludesGive me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door! In 2019–specifically, earlier this week—Ken Cuccinelli infamously edited
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I first learned about the 1980s Sanctuary movement from Tucson’s Rabbi Joe Weizenbaum. He said he remembered being asked, from time to time, why he was a part of a largely church-led movement. His response, which I can no longer remember word for word, was to the effect that Sanctuary wasn’t just a Christian business—that
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When remembering 9/11 — and what that day felt like — “110 Stories,” by John M. Ford, is still the first thing I read. The second, today, was this post from Dan Rather, offering some perspective from our current place in history.
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Are you planning to turn your television to a non-Inauguration station tomorrow to help lower the Inauguration’s ratings? If so, you forgot to verify what you read before accepting it. Because unless you’re a member of a Nielsen family, what you watch likely won’t affect anyone but you. This isn’t the only example I could
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