A timely new book on the U.S. Constitution and its flaws sheds light on our current national crisis and a President who has emboldened right-wing extremism.
My recent experience as part of the Grand Jury in Manhattan and some thoughts on the role and independence of this body.
On holiday in Lisbon, U.S. economist Robert Reich stopped at my husband's university to talk about inequality and what Portugal is doing right.
Thoughts on the House passage of a draconian repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and on withdrawing rights people have enjoyed and come to take for granted.
The dangers of politics as a spectator sport and taking pleasure in watching the disarray of the greedy and powerful.
My staycation this year has become a #grabyourwallet event after United Airlines sicced an abusive police force on a recalcitrant passenger.
Discussing a book I translated from Portuguese, The Queen of the Frogs, which since last November has become a timely story of democracy's erosion.
Remembering how YA literature changed after the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and why we may still have weighty books about diversity and #resistance today.
Confession of my weekend ritual and guilty pleasure of visiting open houses when I have no intention to buy.
How Burning Bush, a film set in Communist Czechoslovakia in 1969, is relevant to our lives today.