“Religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one’s whole life tasting just one kind of fruit. We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
In Lincoln Heights, OH, a majority-Black community has launched an armed patrol to protect itself after a neo-Nazi rally last month saw extremists carrying rifles and shouting slurs. Residents say the move is about safety, not provocation—stepping up where authorities fell short.
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The attacks on Chief Justice Roberts are so emblematic of where we are:
Someone in a position of power who, in some cases, is putting what he thinks is best for the institution ahead of what he might personally prefer. I’m old enough to remember when we called that “leadership.”
Remember when Dan Qualye misspelled “potato” at a school in 1992 and that ruined his political career? Now Trump can tell people in 2020 to vote twice and everyone’s cool with it.