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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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08 July 2025

Eye-yii-yii! I’m trying to tell myself that I’m still learning about life, not drifting into doesn’t-matterness. You know, asleep on the couch in the middle...

25 June 2025

I’ve been away from “the world” for a while – by which I mean, away from home and my life of computer-focused hermitude.

As I wait for round 2 of my...

18 June 2025

Shouts and cheers, honking horns, people banging on drums. Oshkosh! No kings – at least not today. I’m with my si  ster and great nephew, attending the...

06 June 2025

Basically, everyone knows that “making America great again” means making America racist again – making racism the cultural norm again, unlocking the cage of...

29 May 2025

The slaughter goes on, usually in the name of war, which reduces human life to, at best, a strategic abstraction. Dead civilians – dead children – are...

08 May 2025

As Trump and friends claim control over the country, celebrating their war on migrants – “the enemy” of the moment, whom they’ve created and dehumanized –...

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