A recent letter about the “windfall elimination penalty” (WEP) and its damaging ability to wipe out earned retirement income for those who have accrued municipal and Social Security benefits during their careers deserves everyone’s support. This.
In his April 9 My Turn, Jon Huer said that Trump and most of his supporters are “cynical, sinister, and surreal,” which was so kind of him. In his liberal mind, “Half of America is not human.” Huer has some nerve calling Republicans not human when.
As I read the columns by Maddie Raymond in the Recorder, her self-knowledge that locates herself as a tiny being in the larger orbit of society and history impresses me.Her latest column begins with her personal woes: Young Maddie got rejected by the.
As a sociologist, close to half century of my life has been spent in the habit of mind that a well-known social critic C. Wright Mills called “the sociological imagination.” Mills was famous for making things simpler to the common readers but also.
People make personal resolutions for New Year’s Day, taking stock of their lives and resolving to become better human beings in the coming year. In this great American tradition of aspirations to improve our personal lives, I would like to turn this.