Dear America: Meet Bernie Sanders. Properly, this time.

Time to set the record straight.

To My Friends Who Have Not Posted, Acknowledged, Shared or Commented About the Tragedy in Charleston

[Edit: June 20th — I wrote this very soon after the shootings occured. I was in a raw state of despair. Since then, I have realized that these words, although…

Sermon on Father’s Day: Charleston, My White Privilege, & Racism in America

Why Do We Need Equality?

I have always viewed the goal of equality to be a self-evident truth. I believe in equality because it makes sense, irrespective of whatever thing it is that is being fought for.

Today, I was asked by a good friend, in a purely curious and non malicious…

Tips for White Allies

Or, How to Not be an Asshole

The Stench that Haunts Westminster Palace

The British government is in the grip of a mortal crisis that has it reeling from a…

The Double Victimization of Hostage Families

By Eric Lebson and Andrew Ricci

In for an ass whopping of monumental proportions

The Onion would never survive in Ireland

One Terrorism, Two Standards?

When a Muslim suicide bomber blows himself up, when Muslims set off pressure-cooker bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line, when Muslims shoot up a French magazine’s office (and a kosher market), or, when ISIS beheads someone (or sets them on fire, or drowns them, or…), we…