“The Wave” is back — this time it’s not a high school experiment — The One America wave was posted all over Twitter this Sunday after the former president spoke at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. The pictures that evening were posted by disgusted reporters who realized that the attendees were told to raise their right hand (only) and put up one finger. It…

“I would surely be fired if I taught the material I was so committed to teach”…aka: the truth — UPDATE TO STORY: Many readers are confused by the title’s premise that I would indeed be fired. Truth be told, I never for a moment thought my colleagues were correct — cynical, but wrong. Over 700 views and 450+ reads later, I have had some of the most gratifying and…

And what can be done? — As a veteran of 32 high school campaigns, I have ‘Teacher Dreams.’ I am told that a great many teachers have similar ‘dreams’. Usually, I am back in a classroom or at a high school event like a pep rally floating in strange, surreal dreams. I find myself trying to…

Historians often remind us (because we clearly need reminding) that once there was ‘A Greatest Generation.’ The men and woman of all races and creeds took to the South Pacific Seas, the Normandy Beaches and the White Cliffs of Dover to dismantle murderous regimes. But there was so much more…

New documentary is a profile in courage — She is 82 years young. Her walking pace, always in heels no less, makes it clear she is on a mission. In our vicious, polarized political world, she does not break. She knows exactly what her priorities are, and she does not suffer fools who try to get her off…

Mainstream media’s “bothsideism” is unfair to President Biden! — I try to watch MSNBC when I want to get into the weeds of a story; after all, excluding the commercials for every ailment, the 19-minute national news barely surveys the landscape. But the Biden Administration’s main media (TV) outlet can’t see the forest from the trees. It is all…

They have just morphed into the Far Right — Update: This story was written previous to these two “Breaking News” events. First, GOP Candidate Carl Paladino Calls Adolf Hitler ‘The Kind Of Leader We Need Today.” Second, “A U-Haul with masked neo-Nazi white supremacists was pulled over near a Pride event in Idaho — an officer said they were…

What the Union ought to be — For many years, I sat among my students to gaze at Paul Newman’s performance in the stage play Our Town. The class read aloud the first two acts, but when it came to Act III, when the author Thornton Wilder pondered what so many of us take for granted —…

Otherwise, the “Trump Empire” will strike back — A reader responding to my essay on why the Democrats can win the midterms called me delusional. To be fair, he also thought my optimism was to be applauded. If you think the midterms will be the end of the Democrats’ control of either the House or the Senate, then…