Feb 19, 20094 min read
From a National Day of Service to the Promise of Citizen Power
It was a Martin Luther King Day like none other! Via videos, both Barack and Michelle Obama movingly called us to get out and make it a...
Jan 9, 20094 min read
One Quarter of Americans Still Don’t Believe It — What About You?
In Paris, sixty years ago today, the U.N. General Assembly passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Access to food is the right...
Dec 12, 20084 min read
Where Were You on November 4, 2008?
Days of infamy sear our psyches. We never forget. “Where were you when JFK was shot?” In Indiana volunteering in a home for the mentally...
Nov 6, 20082 min read
Empower the Undecided: UDecide.org
With talk of terrorist “pals” and melanoma prognoses, can this presidential campaign get worse? Probably. But maybe meaner and scarier is...
Oct 23, 20083 min read
Our Next President Could Learn a Lot from Willie Nelson
What a weekend to be hanging with the guys from Farm Aid: historic financial meltdown, plus, breaking news — ignored by virtually all big...
Oct 12, 20083 min read
7 Years Later: Could Civilians Be Key to Winning the War on Terror?
Except for Iraq, the world has not seen a sustained increase in deaths from terrorism; after the horrific 2001 spike, terror fatalities...