American consumers are addicted to cheap goods manufactured in China. Like any addiction, it seemed to start with a free sample and became an uncontrollable obsession. Both politicians and corporate ...

The outrageous excuses by the defenders of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza have been repeated so many times that I fear they might be taken as the truth.

I am writing with huge thanks to the the City of Grass Valley for Measure B funding at work behind our houses. I had written and tried with the city ...

Quite some time ago I saw a clock in one of my favorite stores on Mill Street, Heart and Home. I didn’t buy it then, but I should have, because ...

Throughout history, the fall of empires has often been preceded by hubris—excessive pride, overconfidence among elites, and a failure to recognize the realities of the present. Are we now facing ...