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At the end of the 2021 season, the Cleveland Indians baseball team will drop “Indians” from their name. In a statement, owner Paul Dolan said, “Hearing firsthand the stories and experiences of Native American people, we gained a deep understanding of how tribal communities feel about the team name and the detrimental effects it has on them.” National Congress of...
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On March 4, 1865, a tall, tired man stood before a crowd gathered at the United States Capitol to deliver what would become one of...
Has America Lost Its Way?
I’ve spent much of my life thinking and writing about ethics. About honesty. About responsibility. About integrity—not simply when doing the right thing is easy,...
All The President’s Targets
It’s difficult to write about honesty, responsibility, and integrity when our minds are consumed daily by a president who demonstrates zero respect for those values...
Integrity Doesn’t Require a Megaphone
Republican John Williams, a chicken farmer and feed dealer from southern Delaware, had never gone to college.  He spoke so quietly on the Senate floor...
WHOSE PURPOSE DOES THIS SERVE?
“He’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of murdering...
Choreographer of Disaster
Nowhere is there a greater metaphor for Donald Trump’s policies, priorities, and unfulfilled ego than the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington’s cultural cathedral...