Sitemap - 2023 - Second Acts

America's ambivalence: Do we want to be "a nation of immigrants," or not?

What's In A (Funny) Name? Why Corporations Sponsor College Football Bowl Games

How Greed and Mismanagement Killed the Pac-12 College Sports League

We're Losing The Fight Against Global Warming

ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND

The baseball owner who betrayed his own team, fans and city

The mixed blessings of winning the lottery may not be so mixed, after all

The Attack on Israel & The Tragic Loss of Innocent Lives

I Retired 5 Years Ago. What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been.

Visiting New York City? Some tips on how to look & act like a real New Yorker

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? The Private Agony of the Introvert in an Extroverted World

Bill Pinkney, first Black person to sail solo around the world, dies at 87

Montgomery, Alabama was the Crucible of the Civil Rights Movement

A Fan's Note: It took more than a half a century, but I finally caught a baseball

Will Cricket Fly in America? The Sport, Not the Insect

The Day The Earth Stood Still. 78 Years Ago, The U.S. Dropped an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

They Go Where Few People Have - Everywhere

The rise and fall of Negro Leagues baseball is told in a new documentary, "The League."

The Night New York City Went Dark. It Happened 46 Years Ago This Week

He opposed slavery. So he was beaten nearly to death on the Senate floor by a Southern congressman

"A Secret Kept From Pregnant Women"

80 years ago, the "Zoot Suit Riots" rocked Los Angeles. Why did it happen?

Mitchell Garabedian: The Lawyer Who Helped Expose the Boston Priest Scandal

The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma. Once there were more than 50. Today, only a handful survive

Los Angeles and the river that ran through it

Before Jackie Robinson, There Was Moses Fleetwood Walker

A Fan's Note: Women's College Basketball's Moment Has Arrived.

An Open Letter to the World of 2123: Sorry for the Global Warming

The Pandemic Struck Three Years Ago: A Remembrance of a Very Strange Time

How A Federal Housing Law Led To The Displacement of Hundreds of Thousands of Poor People

A Look Back: When The Trump Real Estate Business Was Accused of Racial Discrimination

JOHN McCAIN: I GOT PLENTY OF THINGS WRONG, BUT I GOT PUTIN RIGHT

WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?

AMERICA'S SHAME: THE INTERNING OF JAPANESE-AMERICANS DURING WW2

MURALS HONOR THE CHILDREN AND TEACHERS WHO DIED IN THE SCHOOL SHOOTING IN UVALDE, TEXAS

IN YOUTH COURT, EVERYONE'S A TEENAGER