Constitution

It was in the winter of 2013 and I was living by myself in a cold and unfriendly apartment in Bridgeport, Connecticut. My husband had left about a month ago for the West Coast trying to make a better life for us. We communicated over Skype, eager to see each…

It is cathartic to draft most of this blog on July 4th — a citizen’s duty. In light of the most devastating ruling by this renegade court, the one affecting the most of us — women — I am reminded of two current Facebook memes: “4th of July has been…

Terry H Schwadron July 6, 2022 There are at least two things still proving difficult to understand in the Supreme Court’s rejection of abortion rights, and they are clouding abortion politics. One is values-based rather than legal, the second is the continuing confusion over the law. Why, for example, must…

Slavery wasn’t the only compromise in the Constitution, a major omission has led to our current fractured nation, can it be rectified? The Original Framers of the United States induced our nation’s birth with lifesaving compromises in the Constitution. These compromises resulted in a new healthy nation that reflected our…

Independence week: Why are we failing? We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. Archilochus Our founding fathers set great expectations. In the Declaration of Independence, they stated that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they’re endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…