Robert Koehler

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11 May 2006

Will residents of Las Vegas be seeing a mushroom cloud over their city next month?

As I write this, "Divine Strake," the big bang with the macabre...

05 May 2006

Crossing the border

Robert Koehler

Four hundred thousand people coursing for miles through Chicago streets on May 1 - laughing, clapping, chanting joyously, bearing signs as heart-breakingly...

27 April 2006

The FEMA gap

Robert Koehler

"Sir . . . sir."

Need has a tone of voice that's hard to ignore, as badly as I might want to. It pierced my purposeful hurry this night. I had...

07 April 2006

Closing the secret school

Robert Koehler

Something was missing when Father Roy Bourgeois and several companions traveled through South America last month: fear.

Or rather, as he said it,...

30 March 2006

Faith-based voting

Robert Koehler

Oh, those glitches!

For some reason we tolerate them a lot more in an election - that is to say, in the mechanics of democracy, something we...