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Vote and respect the election process

What is most important about Nov. 5? It is not whether Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, with tens of millions of ardent supporters, returns to the White House. It is not whether Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, with tens of millions of passionate followers, becomes the first female president of the United States. What is most important is that citizens turn out in record numbers voting for the candidate of their choice and respecting the right of other citizens to do the same without fear of harassment or belittlement. The greater the turnout, the greater ...

Keeping the faith in America

Greetings from riding shockwaves in the nerve center of the free world. Bleak fury is passed around like the plague here since The Washington Post’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, nixed its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. This column before Election Day is filled with foreboding. Then came former President Donald Trump’s ugly rally in Madison Square Garden, laced with jeers, insults and racist remarks by his friends, which recalled the 1939 neo-Nazi rally right there in the same spot. One “comedian” called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.” Very ...

A testament to political toxicity

We’ve passed the peak of woke politics in the U.S., and the Harris for president campaign is the leading indicator. Of all the things that Kamala Harris wants you to know about her — that she grew up in a middle-class family, that she’s not Joe Biden, that she has a “to-do list” for the American people — perhaps foremost among them is that she’s not woke. She doesn’t have any rote line asserting this, but achieving distance from the fashionable left-wing politics that defined the Trump years and their immediate aftermath motivates much of what she says and does. That ...

What’s wrong in our nation?

As we move to the conclusion of this election cycle, there seems to be only one thing about which all Americans agree. That is, that something is very wrong in our nation. In the latest Gallup polling, only 22% say they are satisfied with the direction of the country. The highest this has been over the last 16 years was 45% back in February of 2020. So, despite change in party control over these years, the sense that something is wrong in the country has persisted, More in the framework of this election, only 39% say they are better off than they were four years ago, and 52% say ...

The Democratic party’s bad October

Was it just a coincidence that Vice President Kamala Harris showed up, 15 minutes late, to be interviewed by Fox News’ Bret Baier a day before Nate Silver’s poll aggregation website showed her chances of winning the election slipping below 50%? Probably not. What may link Harris’ slide in the polls and her tardy appearance for an interview in which she served up word salads to Baier’s questions on immigration and inflation and then segued, sometimes awkwardly, to denunciations of former President Donald Trump? October hasn’t been a good month for Harris or her party. Nor ...

Give kids room to figure out who they are

One of the great things about being a parent is getting to witness your child become who they are. The process can be scary, though. Kids try on different personas in attempts to figure it all out while in an environment that is inherently unkind: school. Peers can be brutally honest and not very kind. Parents naturally want to protect their children from being judged, but we must also resist trying to shape children in a way that stifles their exploration. We want them to resist the urge to merely fit in. We want them to be their best while finding safe spaces where they feel a real ...