For at least the last four decades now I feel like I’ve been living in Beached America: a nation that has lost its values, even as it writhes in violent...
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Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.
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11 February 2016
Maybe if we declared “war” on poison water, we’d find a way to invest money in its “defeat.”
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06 February 2016
“It was also a shock to the system that a candidate universally known in Iowa, with deep pockets and long experience, could come close to losing to a...
27 January 2016
When I want to believe that America is a democracy — indeed, to feel so deeply this is so that my soul trembles — I turn to Martin Luther King, who...
28 December 2015
Write about love, as in love thy enemy, and the social recoil sounds like this:
“There is no nexus at which we can speak with ISIS. Singing Kumbaya...
07 December 2015
It’s too easy to reduce acts of kindness to an “aw, isn’t that nice?” sort of irrelevance. What if we thought about them, instead, as templates for foreign...