This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving — giving of ourselves. Yes, we...
It’s good to have a happy-ending story for the holidays – one that’s not sugar-plum sappy, but genuinely uplifting. It “feels like justice,” said fourth-generation Texas shrimper Diane Wilson in early December, when a federal...
Generations of working-class shrimpers, oysterers, and other fishing families on the sparkling bays along the Texas coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, have long shared the waterways with alligators and snakes that also call this...
We might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and other big, progressive ideas to help improve the circumstances of America’s workaday majority. But… Democrats?...
There’s a new political army on the march in America: Tromp-tromp-tromp they came, it’s the Billionaire Brigade! It’s actually a very small army – only 749 Americans rank as billionaires. But they have a lot of...
Breaking news: Donald Trump has inadvertently said something true! He recently exulted that his special tax incentives to spur investment in poverty projects have gone “beyond anything that anybody… even thought.” So true! His “Opportunity...
Years ago, a Texas legislator who was known to be bribable explained his ethical framework as opportunistic: “I seen my chances, and I took ‘em,” he said. Likewise, such hustlers as Dan Gilbert (the billionaire...
America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of whether to pursue a food future rooted in the ethic of sustainable agriCULTURE – or...
Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big bird, 46-million of which we Americans will devour on this Thanksgiving Day. It was the...
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote of being leery of a fast-talking huckster who visited his home: “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons,” Emerson exclaimed. Likewise, today’s workaday families...