In much of “The Iliad” – the ancient Greek “prequel” to “The Odyssey” now dominating the summer movie box office – the hero Achilles can be found sulking in his tent outside the walls of Troy. He is bitterly angry at his fellow Greeks, feeling that he has been cheated and disrespected, and thus refuses […]
“We the people of the United States of America ….” That phrase from the preamble to the Constitution seems a quaint, almost archaic notion in these divisive times, times in which we’ve lost faith in ourselves and in each other. We the people, acting together, toward a shared purpose, a more perfect union? Do we […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff released a report on July 8 documenting lead exposure in a newborn, mold-related emergency room visits, and a cockroach infestation living inside a family’s oven, all in privatized military housing at Fort Benning and Fort Stewart. Read it and you’d think it was written in 2022. It wasn’t. That’s the scandal: the Pentagon outsourced a duty of care to private landlords and never enforced the contracts meant to keep it intact.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is calling on his rival in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race, Republican Congressman Mike Collins, to be more transparent about the role a white nationalist and social media influencer had in his trucking business. In a press briefing Thursday, Ossoff argued that Collins’ silence on the issue is “disqualifying” for a […]
