Author
Rob Schofield
N.C. Gov. Cooper withdraws from Harris VP sweepstakes, Beshear reportedly not in final 3
The New York Times and CNN were the first to report on Monday evening that North Carolina’s Gov. Roy Cooper has withdrawn from consideration to be the running mate for the all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris. The reporting by the two national outlets — both of which cited unnamed sources — confirmed […]
Juneteenth holiday: An important moment to contemplate our nation’s past and present
What in the world could they have been thinking? That’s one of the questions (or, at least, one hopes it is) that most white Americans ask themselves periodically when contemplating the evil of human slavery – the institution that undergirds so much of their modern privilege and wealth. How could any human being ever think […]
Climate grief and the stark choice that confronts us
If the five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, Americans can be found at all points along the continuum when it comes to global climate change and the environmental crisis that accompanies it. Like many who’ve contemplated a grim health-care diagnosis that seems to belie of how they feel in the […]