by Matthew Friedman | Mar 8, 2020 | Commentary, First Person, Politics
Elizabeth Warren has faced entrenched sexism at every turn in her personal, professional, and political life. It is what turned her once-promising presidential campaign into an uphill slog against the misogyny deeply rooted in the soil of American culture. It is the...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 1, 2020 | Commentary, Editorial
Do you remember when 2016 was “the worst year ever,” and we looked forward to the possibilities offered by 2017? Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, and Carrie Fisher all died in 2016, in what seemed like quick succession. It was an incalculable loss...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 13, 2019 | Commentary
Wednesday, December 11 – or 13 Kislev in the Jewish calendar – felt unbearably surreal. I felt as if a waking nightmare had mobilized my darkest terrors as I traveled home, trapped on one delayed flight after another, to sit shiva for a beloved and respected uncle....
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 3, 2019 | Commentary, Politics
Candice Keller and Ron Hood had a moment in the media spotlight last week when they introduced Bill 413 in the Ohio House of Representatives. The proposed legislation is one of the most radical anti-abortion bills ever proposed in the United States. It would not only...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 22, 2019 | Commentary, Editorial, Satire
Good sense seems to be breaking out all over in the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Elizabeth Warren has shown her political acumen and practicality by backing-off from her previously-held Medicare-for-All position this week. Pete Buttigieg, who...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 10, 2019 | Commentary, First Person
We woke on the morning of Yom Kippur to the news from Halle. I felt queasy, but not surprised. My first thought was “of course: another holy day, another attack.” This has happened before; it has happened too many times before. In the last year alone, fourteen people...
