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...
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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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 –...
18 April 2025
From Gulf of America to mass expulsion of “illegals” (people of color) to continuing genocidal complicity in Gaza to whatever the daily news brings us...
11 April 2025
I need some help here. The Trump presidency and the “America only” future he’s hawking to the public like the world’s most arrogant snake-oil salesman feels...