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    Remembering and Celebrating a Few Greats

    Remembering and Celebrating a Few Greats

    By Jan Wahl– From Ruth Bader Ginsburg to John Lewis, Max von Sydow to Kobe Bryant, 2020 has been a challenging year of loss.  I am usually optimistic, but this…

    Interracial LGBTQ Holiday-Themed Children’s Book Receives Disturbing Backlash

    Interracial LGBTQ Holiday-Themed Children’s Book Receives Disturbing Backlash

    By Michele Karlsberg– True Colors Lab has released this year’s most anticipated children’s book, Two Dads Under the Christmas Tree, by Tobias Miles and illustrated by Milan Samadder. The backlash to this…

    Electoral Bang for the Buck, the 2020 Edition

    Electoral Bang for the Buck, the 2020 Edition

    By Louise “Lou” Fischer– Over 80 million people will exhale in sheer relief and leap in paroxysms of glee when the current Commander Cheeto-in-Chief exits the White House for the…

    I Confess: The Case for a Trump Self-Pardon

    I Confess: The Case for a Trump Self-Pardon

    By Andrea Shorter– Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution grants the President of the United States the power to pardon any person convicted for or accused of…

    Mitch McConnell’s Neighborhood

    Mitch McConnell’s Neighborhood

    By Robert Holgate and Jennifer Kroot– (Editor’s Note: This issue marks the launch of a new column jointly authored by Jennifer Kroot and Robert Holgate. Both are extremely successful in…

    How to Turn Investment Losses into Gains

    How to Turn Investment Losses into Gains

    By Brandon Miller, CFP– Uncle Sam and Santa both have white beards, but no one really confuses the two. So, it may surprise you that the skinnier guy delivers gifts…

    Unpretentious but Still Premium

    Unpretentious but Still Premium

    By Philip Ruth– An unpretentious image is generally seen as desirable, but it’s an elusive one in car marketing. Brands and sub-brands, model names, and corporate identities all aim to…

    A Queer Pandemic Metamorphosis

    A Queer Pandemic Metamorphosis

    By John Lewis– “Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find he had been transformed into a gigantic cockroach.” So reads the first sentence of Franz Kafka’s 1915…

    Coming Out Stories: A Rainy Night in Paris

    Coming Out Stories: A Rainy Night in Paris

    By Page Hodel– I can almost remember the exact moment that I realized I might be one of “those” people. I was driving shotgun in the red Morris Minor of…

    Great Interviews, Movies, and Stars

    Great Interviews, Movies, and Stars

    By Jan Wahl– It’s been a fabulous career of not only movies, but also interviewing stars from Cary Grant to Johnny Depp (Grant was dry and funny, Depp deep and…