Political wisdom always has a sharp, cynical edge. You can’t utter it without feeling the throb of ancient wounds.
For instance: “If voting changed...
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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15 October 2015
“The Pentagon said on Saturday that it would make ‘condolence payments’ to the survivors of the American airstrike earlier this month on a hospital run by...
08 October 2015
“We tried to take a look into one of the burning buildings. I cannot describe what was inside. There are no words for how terrible it was. In the Intensive...
24 September 2015
“Native Americans have to concede that rain dances don’t work.”
Yeah, snort. How funny can you get? It’s the...
19 September 2015
The world hemorrhages. Refugees flow from its wounds.
Is there a way to be innocent of this?
People are washed ashore. They die of suffocation...
12 September 2015
Who are all these people?
Here’s another global problem — this flow of refugees — that national governments are apparently incapable of...