Believing in (and talking about) Healthcare as a Human Right
So many in the US look around right now and don’t like what they see. From the way people treat one another to their own economic situation, it feels like…
Category: Politics
Healthcare Reform Harms People of Color
The US Congress has been focused on healthcare reform for the better part of 2017 and once again, the plight of people of color is being forgotten and ignored. I’m a family…
Medicare for All: What’s In a Name?
The Americans most satisfied with the current healthcare system are those with government sponsored health insurance. So why is it that whenever it is proposed that such a system be expanded to the…
Fear in a Trumpian World
Fear is the belief that someone or something is dangerous or likely to cause harm, whether or not that someone or something is actually dangerous or ever causes harm. It is…
Silence can be louder than words and words can be stronger than hate
Because the silence was deafening. Because one third of our students are Muslims. Because we don’t shed our American-ness when we leave the US. Because ignoring it is just as…
A Letter to My Congressman
Dear Congressman Blumenauer, I am despondent by this week’s events. I chose “environment” from the topic choices above because I had to choose something, but from Trump’s Executive Order watering…
The Delicate Fabric of Civilization: Thoughts on the Arab Conflict
I just finished Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart, the recently published New York Times Magazine behemoth about the Middle East by Scott Anderson. It goes back as far…