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  • My Lyft Ride with a Black Trump Supporter on MLK Day

    My Lyft Ride with a Black Trump Supporter on MLK Day0

    The media narrative on American politics has become so tedious you don’t have to listen anymore. Every story seems to follow a formula, and never more so on than on the Martin Luther King holiday. Every headline proclaims how black Americans are horrified at Trump’s insensitivity to the historical plight of blacks in the civil

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  • My Life as a Terrorist

    My Life as a Terrorist0

    Before I begin this narrative, you need to know I am not a frequent flyer. In fact, I am an infrequent flyer. In the last twenty years, I have boarded an aircraft three times. Please bear that in mind. In August, I went online and purchased a ticket to fly round-trip from Washington D.C. to

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  • My Letter To Greta: Some Questions and a Piece of Advice

    My Letter To Greta: Some Questions and a Piece of Advice0

    Dear Greta Thunberg, Congratulations on making the cover of Time and being named “Person of the Year.” That’s quite an achievement for a person your age. Though I had followed you online by reading a few articles, the Time honor led me to look more deeply into your background. That investigation left me with some

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  • My Kindergartner Was Told Trump Was Going to Kill ‘All the Girls in the U.S.’

    My Kindergartner Was Told Trump Was Going to Kill ‘All the Girls in the U.S.’0

    Yesterday afternoon I received an email from the dean of my 5-year-old daughter’s school. When I saw my little girl’s name in the subject line, my first thought was that she had said something naughty. (She’s a goofball and recently discovered scatological humor.) But that wasn’t the case. Kelly and Jonathan, Just wanted to let

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  • My Kids Don’t Eat Organic. Here’s Why

    My Kids Don’t Eat Organic. Here’s Why0

    Last summer my family joined a CSA (short for Community Supported Agriculture). We buy a share of a farm’s output over the season, pay up front, and receive a box of fruits and vegetables every week throughout the spring, summer and early fall. Part of our share includes picking a certain amount of fruits and

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  • My Fourth of July: Hope for America

    My Fourth of July: Hope for America0

    My Fourth of July began when I placed six small American flags at intervals along the sidewalk of the front porch of my daughter’s house. As I pushed the flagpoles into the grass, I thought of my deceased wife, who had purchased these and other American flags, and who for years had decorated the lawn

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