The image of Americans protesting against busloads of refugee children represents a new low in American hatred of the “other.”  To them, it matters little that these children are refugees and desperately fleeing for their lives.  They are “illegals” that don’t belong here–regardless of their needs, regardless of what U.S. federal law saws, and regardless of the likelihood that U.S. policy towards Central American nations actually helped precipitate this crisis.  This border crisis hypocrisy has American fingerprints all over it. read more

Many of my friends worry about how the Tea Party can be held at bay.  As for me, though, I wonder whether participating in political activism is akin to drilling for oil while the dinosaurs are still alive and roaming the earth. read more