There is something about politicians -- particularly Democrats, I think -- that makes them rise to their best when they're making concession speeches.

All the way back to Michael Dukakis, I remember thinking as I heard him concede, "Well if you'd been that person during the campaign,...

Every once in a while, a mighty wind blows.

The political sentiments now storming America in the form of support for Barack Obama are a mighty wind indeed. For those trying to say this is all just hot air, it's time to point out that so is a windstorm....

"What! You're not voting for Hillary? But I thought you were such a feminist!"

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times. So let me explain why I'm not voting with my vagina...

As a feminist, I believe nurturing and nourishing a world trying...

I didn't start out with him. I thought people were projecting wildly onto him, making positive assumptions that he hadn't earned and filling in empty spaces in his resume with mere hopes of substance. But the longer campaign season has worked for me; having watched the candidates move through time,...

While Americans are celebrating the holidays in a land of plenty, we're reminded of those who live in places where food they need merely to survive is unavailable to them.

This letter is what you might think of as a "Prayer Alert." Tens of thousands of Somalians, victims seeking...

While Americans are celebrating the holidays in a land of plenty, we're reminded of those who live in places where food they need merely to survive is unavailable to them.

This letter is what you might think of as a "Prayer Alert." Tens of thousands of Somalians, victims seeking...

The thought police are an insidious lot.

Their headquarters aren't in some bright shiny building. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that their headquarters are in many shiny buildings.

And they don't announce themselves as the thought police. Who needs to get into the messy work of actually policing...

When Iran's Ahmadinejad came to New York, everyone acted like we were being visited by Hitler. Maybe he is that bad, I don't know. But it doesn't feel that way to me. I'm a Jew. I support Israel. And still, he doesn't feel that bad to me. "More research is...

I'm beginning to feel like the guy on the bridge in the Edward Munch "Scream" painting.

On August 30th, six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were "mistakenly" carried on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell assured us that concerns about the error...

There's a lot of talk, as there always is during political campaign seasons, about which candidate can better "bring us together." I'm not so sure, though, that that's exactly what we need right now. What we need is to come out of our denial, realizing what a moral...

The current presidential race is a dull, boring game being hailed by the media as an exciting contest. There's no real life there. Very little deep dialogue. It's like a lot of canned music being played too loud.

Though some say a prolonged campaign gives us a chance to...

There is a principle in A Course in Miracles stating that it is not up to us what we learn, but only whether we learn through joy or through pain. In a universe that is, quite literally, the ongoing evolutionary impulse to love -- the spiritual process through which Love...

I think I have some left-wing credentials, and even a few of them in the area of racial reconciliation. But a left-wing thought police scares me just as much as a right-wing one does, and the idea that anyone -- Al Sharpton or anyone else -- is planning to "purify...