Michael Hertz: I talked to a very low-level person volunteer who said that he thought that this would be a good idea but he would have to talk to the higher ups. The higher ups never called me back, and so far as I know, there wasn’t a really good sharing system ever set up.
Holding the Rich and Powerful Accountable
Rivera Sun: If our cars fatally malfunctioned as often as police officers shoot citizens, there would be a massive recall, pulling vehicles off the road, overhauling the engineering design, firing culpable employees, and paying out settlements to consumers for injuries and deaths of family members.
The Word of the Summer Is “Victoriotic”
Joe Mathews: Donald Trump is the epitome of constant bragging about inflated success, but we’re all guilty, especially in California.
The Difficulties of Creating a Global Jewish Conspiracy
Scott Prosterman: Despite a careful application of charm and sales theory, I didn’t get past the gatekeeper. I’m still waiting to hear back from Senator Al Franken and Sara Silverman, not the one from Memphis, but THE Sara Silverman.
Establishment Dems = Republicans
Lila Garrett: Maybe you’re trying to trivialize the random killing and plunder taking place in the real world. Or maybe you’re just hoping to distract us from it.
Our Revolution Marches On
Michael Hertz: Sanders plans to support at least 100 candidates running for a wide range of public offices—from local school boards to Congress—at least through the 2016 elections.
Back in Time at My 50th Reunion
Steve Hochstadt: I grew up on streets where nearly every house had kids, ready to join Cub Scouts, play ball, and walk to school. Crime was throwing snowballs at passing cars. At our reunion, we all marveled at how easy it was to grow up in Carle Place.
Embracing the New Populist Moment
Robert Borosage: The next movement waves—climate change, student debt, protests against systemic inequality and brutal policing—will continue to shake the establishment.
We Have Seen This Bitterness Before: Reflections on 1968 and Now
Mark Naison: Though some people died, others burned themselves out, and families fractured, the nation survived and we stumbled on without our political system collapsing.
Take Two: A Peek at Melania’s Second Night Speech
Larry Wines: I’m from Eastern Europe, so ollie-ollie-oxen-free, Ollie, and there won’t be any more Stan to claim it’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into because Donald never admits to getting into a mess.
The Challenge for the Day after Bastille Day
Larry Wines: That endless roll of statistics that distills human carnage into numbers has a new line in the compilation, as anonymous as traffic highway deaths, as impersonal as any numbers too big to associate with individual human persons who are suddenly dead.
Life as a Dance with Reality
Charles Hayes: Inevitably there are many things we have to take on faith because there are times when even science has to create cranes that rest on skyhook assumptions.
Liberal Arts Inaction
David Leon: Even though students walk away from small liberal arts colleges equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to shake things up, challenge the status quo, and foment meaningful social change, few actually do.
