Category: Politics is Personal

New York has been very quiet for over a month now. The bars, coffee shops and nightclubs are shuttered. Fancy clothing stores are boarded up.   No more shows on Broadway. Times Square is a ghost town, with neon ads appealing to a limited audience: a few vloggers documenting the apocalypse with their iPhones and a […]

Will this be the event that finally convinces people that the United States needs Universal Healthcare. All around us, in the Greater New York community, people and businesses are making sacrifices, pledging to self isolate and cancelling events. The hard truth is that we are only as healthy as the sickest among us. And, this […]

I’d like to skip to the end of this book that we’re living through. I’ve felt this way since the 2016 election. And, every time I think we’ve gotten near the end of the “book”, somehow more chapters are added and we’re back somewhere in the middle. The latest chapter is the 2020 presidential primary. […]

It was a “wait, what?” moment. As I watched the Fox interview with Brett Kavanaugh, something he said just didn’t sound right. His assertion that “And yes, there were parties. And the drinking age was 18, and yes, the seniors were legal and had beer there” stopped me in my tracks. I knew we were […]

You’re a little boy or girl watching a movie. As you’re watching, you are deciding: Who do I relate to? Who am I rooting for or against? And you’re wondering: does the character I’m relating to look anything like me? If you are part of the “majority”, you may not get this. You need to […]

Recently I asked one of my friends: “How much is freedom of speech worth to you?” He wondered what I meant. “How much would they have to pay you to give it up?” After some haggling, he (a cash-starved law student like myself) conceded that a lump-sum payment of $50,000 would suffice for him to […]