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Love and fear of wild things: The child in Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak is with us no more but his wild things live on to enchant and terrorize children of all ages.
Social networking and organ donation: A connection to save lives
Is Mark Zuckerberg, the man who made a fortune on the idea that people want to share everything, right in thinking that everything might also include organs?
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker; Paul Ryan and the Path to Prosperity
Dorothy Day was inspired to create a path to social justice in America. Paul Ryan is doing his best to cut it off.
Lowering the annual tax bill: As American as APPLE pie.
Apple should be ashamed of itself by--actively and aggressively--making sure that it can pass the costs of the nation and the state onto others, sparing itself even while it accepts all the benefits of citizenship.
The United States Post Office: Service or Business?
The United States Post Office is an unmatched bargain, a genuine public good that links all people and communities into one nation. It can have a future, if we think the right way about it.
The Vatican, the bishops, nuns and the people: Whither the church?
The Vatican--and the American bishops--might do a whole lot better following the lead of nuns instead of questioning their authenticity.
Healthcare in America: The United States Supreme Court and the Social State
Healthcare in America is both an economic issue and a moral issue and we need to come to an understanding as a community as to how to pay for it.
Divided again: The United State Supreme Court, Albert W. Florence, and the Fourth Amendment
dbking's photostramThe United State Supreme CourtThe United States Supreme Court decided Florence v. County of Burlington, No. 10-945, this week, 5 to 4, and so allows officials to strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor before admitting them to...
How not to celebrate Women's History Month (and the story of American Labor) in Maine
July Taylor websiteTextile workers (panel 3) Maine Department of Labor muralSo, the governor of Maine, Paul R. LePage, was within his rights last year when he removed a mural depicting the history of the labor movement from a state office...
Pam Hasegawa: Phenomenal Woman
Linda StamatoPam Hasegawa, MorristownI began Women’s History Month with a national figure, Barbara Jordan, and I end with Pam Hasegawa, who is both a local and global presence, occupying as she does a critical place in her neighborhood, and, as...
Support the public interest: Save the United States Postal Service
As the nation contemplates closing post offices and significantly curtailing postal services, we need to think seriously about what we’re doing, and, consider what the public postal service means to the nation. This is not a fight only to save 32,000 post offices and the middle-class jobs they provide but to advance the idea of America itself.
The Land-Grant Colleges: Educating a People, Building a Nation
As we prepare to celebrate 150 years of the land grant college, the basic framework for American public higher education, there is a lack of appreciation for what it has accomplished and a willingness to ignore its potential, and, in New Jersey, to let politics and power trump history, or so it seems with the plan to dismantle Rutgers, our state's land grant, an institution that has served the state and educated its citizens for more than two centuries.
Mary Tillinghast comes back to New Jersey
The contributions of women to art are often overlooked but, recently, there have been serious efforts to re-examine the art historical canon and give credit to those contributors whose names were erased or never recorded. Meet New Jersey artist Mary Tillinghast.
William Carlos Williams, the poet of Rutherford
Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and physician, William Carlos Williams was born in New Jersey, a first-generation immigrant, and he died here just short of 50 years ago. He created a distinctively American verse, deceptively ordinary, profoundly emotional in its identification with its subjects. He didn’t ignore the gulf between what he saw in America and what he wanted for it.
The public costs of power brokers
Local governments could save more than $100 million annually by opting to enter the state health plan. Why don't they? Ask your local, or not so local, power broker.
Another witness silenced: Marie Catherine Colvin
"There is a moral obligation to go out and tell the truth of what I see."
Marie Catherine Colvin, American journalist (January,1956-February, 2012)
Red Tails and Rutgers: A salute to the University Tuskegee Airmen and to the Rutgers Oral History Archives
Rutgers Oral History ArchivesRutgers Professor, William Neal Brown (center, floor), served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. The story of the Tuskegee Airmen is the story of how a group of extraordinary men, African-Americans all, overcame racist opposition...
Anthony Shadid: Witness to history
Wikipedia.orgAnthony Shadid “…a poet, but first and foremost an incomparable witness.” Bill Keller, former editor, New York Times Anthony Shadid (September 26, 1968 – February 16, 2012) was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times based in Baghdad and...
Capitalism, democracy and the good society
A fundamental assumption, with good evidence to support it, holds that free-market capitalism and democracy go hand in hand to create the good, even, the best societies. But, the world is changing.
Barbara Jordan: A great American
Barbara Jordan, politician, educator, and champion of civil rights, broke down the barriers of race and gender in a distinguished list of American "firsts." She was honored by many institutions and recognized for her role in the nation's history. She would be demanding, today, that we get on with the nation's business of democracy, much as she did during Watergate and the years that followed. She was the nation's conscience; she remains its loyal daughter, democracy's daughter.
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