During his first weeks in office, President Trump signed several executive orders for an Environmental Protection Agency media blackout, a ban on funding global organizations that either perform or mention abortion, and the now-infamous “Muslim... Read More

The pictures shown here were taken when I was in Iraq during my first tour with the US Army Rangers. We operated out of a small town called Hawijah, and the countryside around it was... Read More

“In a real sense all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Martin Luther... Read More

Last week I attended Creating Change, an annual conference spearheaded by the National LGBTQ Taskforce that provides training in grassroots organizing that centers the experiences and expertise of LGBTQ activists. This five-day event was unlike... Read More

On Tuesday night the president tweeted this: “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on, I will send in the Feds!” A typical conservative jibe against gun control measures is to mention the high... Read More

This week marks the forty-fourth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark US Supreme Court decision that gave all American women the right to legal abortions. Even though four and a half decades have passed,... Read More

On a crisp and bright January day in 2009, when Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States, Americans flooded the nation’s capital in record numbers for a glimpse at a hopeful... Read More