In a Merced Sun-Star interview (Oct. 1, 2025) following his brief presentation (on Sept. 9, 2025) to the Merced County Board of Supervisors, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke dismissed the California [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
Cambodia-Thailand Conflict
The inaugural Decolonizing Southeast Asia Studies Conference at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on July 25 concluded with a timely session on the centuries-old border conflict between [...] Continue Reading
America the Great?
Almost from its beginning the United States of America has been considered great, the hope of oppressed people on the rest of the planet with the possible exception of the indigenous people of what we [...] Continue Reading
America the Great?
Almost from its beginning the United States of America has been considered great, the hope of oppressed people on the rest of the planet with the possible exception of the indigenous people of what we [...] Continue Reading
Ending the Delusion of Nuclear Weapons
While listening to John F. Kennedy’s July 25, 1963, radio and television address to the American people on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, I couldn’t help but think back on a time when I was only eight [...] Continue Reading
It Has Happened!
Not even a planet is big enough for two egos such as those of Trump and Elon Musk. It was just a matter of time, how long it would take for the two supposedly working together to blow up attacking [...] Continue Reading
Schools Are Failing Our Students
Education over the last several decades has gone through several paroxysms of change, all of them bringing education to the state it is in today. Essentially, non-congruence between increasing [...] Continue Reading
From Nicaragua to Vietnam to Palestine
This spring, Veterans for Peace (VFP) members were part of two impactful delegations—first to Nicaragua in March, then to Vietnam in April and May. These veterans, who are committed to exposing the [...] Continue Reading
“Immigration” Is Not in the U.S. Constitution
As an educator who has spent years studying the U.S. Constitution—not just the 603+ volumes of commentary written about the Constitution—but studied the Constitution of original intent itself, as well [...] Continue Reading
Genocide Continues
In 1989, while a high school social studies teacher, I went to Palestine, and what I learned completely transformed my point of view. As a teenager in the 1960s, I had absorbed the Leon Uris Exodus [...] Continue Reading
Missing from the Inaugural Address and Executive Orders
We once had a thriving middle class where each generation could get ahead of their parents’ generation, where there were few unhoused people and catastrophic environmental disasters rarely occurred. [...] Continue Reading
MAGA 2.0: What’s ahead?
There has been much speculation about what the incoming Trump administration and his MAGA base have in store for the country. Despite vehement denials by Trump and his running mate (what was his [...] Continue Reading