Are we almost at the point of no return? Let America be America again, please, in a post-Donald Trump world. Rebuilding our institutions, arts and trust in government is not a sure thing. Given a global economic, environmental or medical crisis, the endeavor could cross country boundaries, as ...
May marks Community Action Month — a nationwide event to commemorate the value and meaning of the work of Community Action Agencies. At Maui Economic Opportunity Inc., we are proud to be Maui County’s Community Action Agency, a designation that dates back to 1965. Our history is entwined ...
Some say that God created war to teach Americans geography. Few Americans knew anything about Korea, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq, or even how to find them they on a map, before we went to war there. Now we have the geography of Iran to contend with. And apparently our leaders are not too good with history either – even painful, recent history. How did our last three wars work out? Anything to avoid? It is well known that the Strait of Hormuz is a uniquely narrow water way in the Persian Gulf that that has been used over the centuries to squeeze international trade for profit or ...
Millennials are a cultural infrastructure, like an older overpass everyone depends on, but it's starting to carry more weight than it was originally designed to hold. We're trying to move things forward as we absorb tension from both directions. And increasingly, this generation is being asked ...
We've been having a debate about "book bans" in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not. The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the ...
One of the many angry eruptions of the petulant press over Donald Trump is "he's destroying all our political norms." Trump is surely a disrupter of politics as usual — and more of a disrupter of the federal bureaucracy in his second term. But the Democrats have been at war with ...
