Whether it’s Texas governor Rich Perry admitting he has no doubt about the guilt of those who have been executed, or the reaction of those who were against some kind of reprieve to the recent execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, or anyone else who is sure of guilt in a capital offense, I pause…

It’s not what Jackie Kennedy said about Martin Luther King Jr. or about Lyndon Johnson that stands out for me in those recently released taped conversations. What stands out is how far she came, how much she grew, how she matured and evolved. She was 34 when she gave those interviews at a time when…

Within an hour today I had read about human trafficking, the problems of refugee camps for Somalians, those of Mongolia, where the cold as well as changing times force people with no skills to move to the city and one family of 6 in Ulan Bator lived in something the author called “a crawl space”…