He may be gone, but he was only a symptom of the problem — America and the world are, at long last, rid of Donald Trump the President. His nepotistic family and venal associates, whose litany of improprieties runs longer than the golf course on which Mr. Trump was informed of his defeat, have been similarly cast out, at least for now. The same…

We must not be silent any longer — “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference,” once stated the late Auschwitz survivor, Elie Wiesel. “To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that’s being dead…. …

A morsel of charity for a man who showed none — Someday, some poor bastard grinding away for minimum wage will be burdened with the thankless task of etching a commemoration into Donald Trump’s epitaph. The most charitable thing I can imagine it saying goes something like this: Here rests the body of Donald John Trump. …

A viral pandemic and an oil-price war have lit the fuse — They say history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. There can be no better demonstration of that maxim than the time we are living through currently. There’s also nothing like a global emergency to show the importance of being prepared — and to expose those who are not. …

Get out your rubber boots, because the mud is going to fly — Excuse me, that’s political “debates,” because very little genuine debate ever takes place at these events. It’s more of an opportunity for politicians to utter carefully rehearsed, focus-group-tested slogans. The things they say could usually fit on a bumper-sticker. Listen for emotive words and phrases designed to get the people…

As the cost of inaction rises, resting on our laurels is a luxury we cannot afford — Scientific reports can be downright impenetrable. If you’d like to learn about the science of climate change without wading through pages of jargon, check out my other article. A Crash Course on Climate Change Predictions are tough, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.medium.com Imagine you have a large aquarium in your house filled with twenty-five rare, exotic fish from around the world. They are your prized possessions, and they’re virtually irreplaceable. Each fish is worth $1000.

He might not care about the Unholy Trinity, but you should. — “This campaign is not about politics,” Jason Kenney declared gallantly to kick off his United Conservative Party’s (UCP) 2019 Alberta election campaign. “It’s about people.” Good one. If he wants to live in a land without politics, he should move to Narnia. But he knows that already. Mr. Kenney’s holier-than-thou…

Capitalism needs a healthy dose of socialism to survive — The winds of change are gaining strength. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), a rookie congresswoman from New York, has unveiled a vision for a Green New Deal while proposing a 70 percent tax on income over $10 million. Even establishment voices are joining the chorus, with newspapers such as Forbes and Business…

Some gun owners need to be more honest with themselves. — The United States has as many guns as it has people. That’s roughly 40 percent of the world’s firearms for about 4.5 percent of the world’s population. It’s no secret that America is packing heat. The secret is who owns it — and why. Just 3 percent of adults own…