What if President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s push for more executions ends up helping America abolish the death penalty?
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Children Having Guns In Our Schools. Does That Sound Right?
In my work as a trauma-informed counselor and nonviolence educator, I often encourage people to reach across differences and listen to those whose views challenge their own. Someone usually asks a harder question: What if the person we are trying to reach has no empathy at all?`
In the past week the President of the US has revealed his true colors on Russia’s war more clearly than ever. The rift between Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has grown very wide—much wider than in February 2025 when Trump admonished Zelensky in the White House for being ungrateful about US aid–and might not be bridgeable.
A disturbing essay by conservative Republican Judge Michael J. Luttig, The Final Battle for American Democracy, lays out steps that Trump and his minions will likely take to overturn the results of the coming midterm election. The Trump gang will refuse to seat a duly elected Democrat majority.
Forced and involuntary displacement can have many causes. I fled my country for many reasons, including insecurity, persistent conflict, and hatred in my village. In my hometown of Kiliba, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), life had become unbearable. People could be killed brutally, as if their lives had no value. Nobody knew who would be the next victim or when the violence would strike again.
Byron Donalds and John James are the Republican candidates for governor in the states of Florida and Michigan, respectively. In the 250-year history of America, three African Americans have been elected governor: Douglas Wilder (Virginia, 1990), Deval Patrick (Massachusetts, 2007), and Wes Moore (Maryland, 2023).
In a speech titled, The President and the Press, delivered before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961, US President John F. Kennedy said, “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.
Republican leaders are so desperate now that they make grave mistakes and stoop to lies and their habitual conspiracies.
Yet here we are, more than 20 years later, still discussing those same limitations.