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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22 November 2023

Much as I love Thanksgiving — seeing my family . . . oh the turkey, oh the cranberry sauce —I feel like maybe a bomb fragment has hit the “thanks” part....

15 November 2023

Is the rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem?

“. . . I came to understand the role some in the U.S. government have played to intentionally catalyze...

08 November 2023

Sitting safely at my desk, looking at photos of bombed buildings and knowing that missing children are buried under the rubble, imagining (unavoidably) what...

01 November 2023

We — by which I mean most of humanity — are still playing with the so-called “just war theory,” the intellectual justification for war dating back to St....

25 October 2023
Here’s some advice you probably never got about parenting: Write...
18 October 2023

“In the midst of our grief and pain, let’s remind each other who we are.” .

These are the words of...

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