June 26, 2022
This Is Not The Time For Celebrations
Marty Levine June 26, 2022 I woke Wednesday morning to the glorious news that our “Senators hail ‘bipartisan breakthrough’ on gun safety legislation” It will be, we are told...
June 2022
June 20, 2022
Me And A.B. Yehoshua
Marty Levine June 20, 2022 Years ago, I met the Israeli author A. B. Yehoshua in a Haifa University classroom looking out over the blue waters of the Mediterranean...
June 13, 2022
Is this really the best we can do?
Marty Levine June 13, 2022 Every one of my news feeds flashed alerts on Sunday that a bipartisan group of 20 Senators had reached agreement on what they described...
June 8, 2022
Facts? We Don’t Need No Stinking Facts!
Marty Levine June 8, 2022 Why is our democracy unable to tackle the difficult problems that confront us? Why are we facing today so many of the same challenges...
June 2, 2022
The Answer to A Simple Question from NPR Tells Us How Broken Our Democracy Is
Marty Levine June 2, 2022 With the horror of children and teachers being shot down in Uvalde, Texas still fresh in our psyches and the horror of the killing...
June 1, 2022
A Battle Worth Fighting
Marty Levine June 1, 2022 The business of government is done in the dry words of lawyers and bureaucrats, words that belie their real-life consequences they have on our...