What would appointing Caroline Kennedy as U.S. Senator do to our practice of equality?–I have no questions about Caroline Kennedy’s fitness to be a senator. For one thing I’ve read two of her books. She is thoughtful, intelligent, articulate with a grasp of many of the issues that matter to making us into a better…

The financial crisis is bound to lead us to confront the bubble our society has created–For the last few weeks as bailouts and rescue packages have become the order of the day, we’ve been talking about huge numbers,numbers which most of us do not comprehend. How many of us really understand what a trillion dollar…

The UN Declaration of Human Rights is 60 years-old, no wonder we’re still have a long way to go–It’s fashionable for many to cite the absence of a more universally applied practice of human rights as an example of how troubled the world is. While there is truth in that statement, when seen in historical…