My good friend and partner, Jamil, wrote a piece for The Hartford Times called Don’t Look Away. It’s about how the horror of Sandy Hook was followed by a long period of numbness caused by exhaustion from the sheer number of preventable tragedies that happen in this country. Uvalde, however, has snapped him out of…
This should have a much longer title. It should really be “If I Were President With At Least A Two-thirds Majority In Both Houses Of Congress, Sympathetic Courts, And At Least Two-thirds Of The Governorships And State Legislatures.” In other words, it’s a wish list. If I had the power to arranging things the way…
In the news surrounding Freddie Gray’s murder and the ensuing outcry in Baltimore, one thing has shocked me. It’s really sad that only one thing has shocked me. It ought to shock me that the police would arrest someone without cause and then kill that person while transporting him to jail. It ought to shock…
On October 24th, 2014, there were at least two shootings in America. One involved high school students in Washington and the other involved police officers in California. Shootings like these have become so common that they don’t even steal the headlines in the news cycle. These two incidents were right alongside stories about the Ebola…
