People who are working towards a more just society often find themselves scorned for asking others not to use certain words or phrases. Referring to a woman as a “girl,” for example, will cause the hackles to rise on...

How do you think this sounds to women everywhere: Universal basic income for every citizen to eradicate gender and racial gaps in wages....

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A couple of days ago I was at the hairdresser’s for the first time in 12 weeks. Masks on, hand sanitizer liberally applied, sterilizer prepping her three pairs of scissors. Those weren’t the only differences....

Images of gun-toting, angry white people storming the Michigan Capitol building to get their way (ABC News, 4/30/2020) have gotten me thinking this week about the utter chaos of living in a society that does not focus on equality....

Vincent Hardin, an African-American historian of the civil rights movement, said, “We are citizens of a country that we still have to create—a just country, a compassionate country, a forgiving country,...

One day, a coyote walked across the Golden Gate Bridge, another roamed the streets of NYC, places open to creatures in the absence of cars and people....

My first experience riding on a big yellow school bus happened the summer I turned 12 years old. The summer school I was attending was several towns away, so the bus ride took a while....

A movement is afoot to get rid of the iconic wheelchair symbol on handicapped parking spaces. People often expect to see a wheelchair getting in or out of the car, if it is parked in a handicapped parking spot....

The biggest story this week has been the coronavirus. We are learning that it is an unusual virus, in that there is no way to know if someone is carrying it or not, because it takes days to manifest....