Go ahead and trespass — as long as you’re white

OK, I was trespassing.

I won’t go into why or where, but I was on someone’s property without legitimate reason.

A neighbor appeared and asked what I was up to. He was fine with my explanation for being there, even though I was…

On a downtown street in Lansing, Mich., a woman asked for our help. She was with her daughter, about 7 years old.

We could see in the woman’s eyes several things: warmth, strength, wariness. In the young girl’s, shyness. Perhaps…

A request to my representative in Congress, John Katko (R, NY-24):

The challenge in writing to you about Donald Trump’s assault on democracy is to focus on the long view, to avoid getting caught up in his latest deliberate distraction…

Back when ‘merica was great, baseball teams ‘barnstormed’ across the U.S., delighting fans young and old. None of those squads, however, packed stadiums like Donald Trump’s rag-tag Swampville 9. They lost a close one this week, on a walk-off dinger by Team USA…

We held an “emergency rally” in the sanctuary city of Syracuse, NY, today, less than two hours after the 45th president of the United States pulled the world’s biggest polluter out of the Paris climate agreement.