I was in a restaurant in the Midwest a few years back. There was an empty section and I asked the server if I could sit there. She said that she’d “prefer” that I not; I went and sat in that section. …

My daughter — a millennial, born in 1995 — was named for my grandmother, my father’s mother, who came to the US as a child, with her parents, from Uman, in Ukraine. What my daughter’s cohort does not know or does not accept or does not understand, regarding the Holocaust…

Agreed (and thank you). One of the saddest developments in the last few decades is the "circular firing squad" on the progressive side. I don't see how we build the necessary coalitions to get real social justice work done if we keep booting people out of meetings b/c they aren't…

As I write this, a court in Minneapolis has just completed the process of seating a jury in the matter of Derek Chauvin, the first of four former police officers set to stand trial in the case of the death of George “I Can’t Breathe” Floyd. Chauvin — as shown…

CVS is What’s Wrong with Healthcare in the US CEO Compensation is Obscene: Pharmacies are Understaffed with Underpaid Workers In the US, we pay twice as much for medical care as just about any other country in the world, for worse results. …

We do not always wear our histories or identities or residency status as signs. If "we know" that "white guys" are privileged and approach people on that basis--on the basis of appearance or demographic characteristics--that's . . . problematic. You can't always know when you are "punching up" vs. "punching down." And "racial shorthand" is dangerous.

Thank you for responding. Thought experiment: Guys who make fun of women in Tech/Management/Medicine represent no barrier at all to the safety, success, and comfort of women in those spheres, and have nothing at all to do with their underrepresentation. True or False? I fully understand people reacting angrily to…

The Left Should Stop Giving Ammunition to the Right I get it. “Reallocate public safety funding to privilege human services over more martial, reactive, and repressive modalities” may not quite have the pith and punch of “Defund the Police.” And, “Comprehensive immigration reform should be thoughtful, humane, and precisely focused…