By Jeffrey Page
You can’t romance the Tea Party while flirting with everyone else at the dance with a hint that you’re really prochoice.

By Gretchen Gibbs
With electricity back I’m trying to figure out why I stopped devouring books.

By Emily Theroux
This country’s been way too white for way too long. It was engendered as a melting pot, but an unequal one. Now, with the reelection of America’s first black president, the path that leads away from a government of, by, and for old, wealthy white men is well on its way to being leveled.

By Bob Gaydos
Is it better to be smart or dumb? How old is old? The two Bobs get a little heavy over coffee.

By Emily Theroux
In the eerie hush of an early Halloween twilight — without lights, heat, and background noise in the millions of households without power — you could almost hear Mitt Romney fuming, all the way from Ohio, over New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s treachery.

By Carrie Jacobson
In a storm like Hurricane Sandy, I get a glimpse of the line between fear and flight.

By Jean Webster
And, if Romney had his way, without equal pay for equal work, women wouldn’t be able to afford their own coverage.

By Jeffrey Page
You might miss important weather by ignoring a trite reference in the first paragraph to Jack Frost nipping at your nose.

By Bob Gaydos
Priests, scoutmasters, entertainers. Is this need to abuse other, more vulnerable, living things part of the human condition?. Is evil in our wiring? Our rearing? Can we overcome it?

By Michael Kaufman
The threat to democracy embodied by the United States Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case extends way beyond the oft-discussed issue of campaign funding. Perhaps even more ominous is the way corporations have interpreted the decision to mean they can pressure employees to vote a certain way.