Working Life

I think it is important that we point out the obscenities that we see every day in life. The danger is that too many people begin to accept, out of resignation and a feeling of helplessness, stupendously immoral standards. Today it’s this one: insurance companies profit because Americans are too poor to go to the […]

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The madness in the world can best be boiled down to this: at the same time that we are told there is not enough money to create jobs or pay for real health care, our government is fueling an even more aggressive weapons spree around the world–and that spree, while it will mean robust new […]

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Today is Human Right Day. This morning, I paused to think about the soaring notion of human rights and, at the same time, the many challenges we face to achieve human rights.   Here is the preamble to the 1948 United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of […]

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   I’m going to ask for your indulgence for another moment–but this is just an important and personal issue to me. A week ago, I wrote about Jimmy Carter’s meeting with representatives of Hamas. Carter had a simple idea: you only make peace with your enemies and you can only make peace when you talk […]

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   A momentary reflection away from what I usually write about. Every day that Jimmy Carter continues his works of peace and humanitarian outreach justifies the day that I cast my first vote in a presidential election for him some…okay, a lot of years ago. His recent foray to establish another line of communication with […]

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