Dear law-abiding Americans: You have done nothing wrong. Being white is not a crime. Being a Trump voter is not a crime. Being a police officer sworn to “protect and serve” every day is not a crime. Being a non-white police officer proud to uphold and enforce law and order is not a ...

Fifty-six years ago (1964) I became involved in the civil rights movement. I was in seminary in the Chicago area, and a group of seminarians and Methodist ministers were assisting students at Tougaloo College near Jackson, Mississippi in their attempts at worshipping at white-only churches. ...

Across the country, primaries involving the Republican Party’s two main flanks are fairly common. Those involving such names as Taft and Eisenhower, Goldwater and Rockefeller, Reagan and Ford, Reagan and Bush 41, Huckabee and McCain - and many more - come to mind. Pick whichever labels ...

By Denny Bonavita Ah, spring. Revive the old saw: “Spring is sprung, the grass is riz; I wonder where the posies is.” “The flowers are right beneath the mower blade!” she shouts. Yes, my wife and I continue to amuse our dogs, cats and chickens with traditional sounds as we revert ...

Meet Bernie, the beta-man. Bernie was a study of marital anxiety. He called and came reluctantly. The self-reproach, the shame he described emanated from an abusive marriage. His self-described alpha wife reportedly tormented Bernie for years. Though described as a “nice guy” by family, ...

And so here we are again. Another black man, unarmed and defenseless, is dead at the hands of a white police officer. This time it was in Minneapolis, where excessive force complaints against its police officers are all-too-common, especially by black residents. This time, it was 46-year-old ...