In the US we live in a representative democracy—imperfect, but real. Citizens elect officials who represent our ideas and concerns, again imperfectly. Democracies need to be nurtured and protected. Their credibility rests on the willingness to accept criticism,...
Sometimes I hear from ordinary people who wish to do something about the multiplying threats to freedom and democracy that we face under the growing Trump tyranny, but fear that their activism may cost them dearly. Our country is on the road to a fascist state and the...
On Thursday July 31, 2025 two members of my community were kidnapped by ICE immediately after attending their immigration hearings at the courthouse at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. Both were Episcopalian parishioners from Westchester, N.Y. churches. Both were...
Growing up in a Jewish family, I often wondered why more Germans didn’t resist Hitler’s rise to power. Living in America in 2025, I no longer have to wonder. The rise of authoritarianism with its minority of rabid supporters and its majority of the fearful, the...
Imagine one Maria Torres—a mother of three and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. On a quiet morning in Phoenix federal agents knock on her door. She isn’t under investigation. She has never committed a crime. But when her 12-year-old son asks, “Do we...
