Herb Rothschild Jr.: A second movement
We’re now in the midst of a second civil rights movement. Just as the abolition movement ended slavery but not inequality for African Americans, so the first civil rights movement ended legal...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: The Gülen extradition
Although he’s been living in the U.S. since 1997, Muhammed Fethullah Gülen isn’t a household name here. He may soon become one. In the wake of the failed coup attempt in Turkey last month, President...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Labor Day thoughts
Oregon was the first state to declare Labor Day an official holiday. That was in 1887, one year after thousands of U.S. workers went on strike and rallied for the eight-hour day. At the rally in...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Time to end the war
Early last year I published a column about the war on drugs. In its original version I asserted that the seemingly failed war hasn’t ended because the real motives behind it were to furnish pretexts...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Measure 97 explained
Measure 97 is the most significant measure on our upcoming state ballot. If passed, it will raise funds dedicated to education, health care and senior services by increasing the minimum tax on...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Corporate taxes
This is the second of three columns on Measure 97 which, if passed, will raise funds intended for education, health care and senior services by increasing the minimum tax on corporations with $25...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Measure 97, Part 3
This is the last of three columns on Measure 97, which proposes to raise funds for education, health care and senior services by increasing the minimum tax on a corporation’s annual sales of $25...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Revolution? Not really
The faculty member who taught Russian history during most of my years at LSU told me that when he first developed his course on revolutions, he wasn’t sure if he should include National Socialism. But...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Pondering term limits
Like most of you, I was saddened by the near coincidence of Peter Buckley’s retirement from the Oregon House and Sen. Alan Bates’ sudden death. But when I heard Pam Marsh and Tonia Moro, the Democratic...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Gender bias endures
When I was active with the American Civil Liberties Union, I attended two of its biennial conventions — in 1968 and 1970. Those were turbulent years in the life of our nation. An extraordinary number...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Our self-reflection
Ever since Donald Trump emerged as the Republican standard-bearer, political observers have said the GOP will have to engage in extensive self-reflection to decide the kind of party it wishes to be....
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Time to step back
However just and anxious I have been,I will stop and step backfrom the crowd of those who may agreewith what I say, and be apart.— Wendell Berry, “A Standing Ground”Last week I ended my column with a...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: No sense in Pence
With all the chitchat on the internet and elsewhere regarding the ghoulish hilarity of a possible Trump presidency, one of the ideas consistently making the rounds is the suggestion that Trump is too...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: Blinded by the white
A recent letter in the Tidings from Ashland resident James Adams gave me pause. Adams is irritated by the fact that OSF has stated in a recent open letter that racist incidents are "happening daily in...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: Citizen Kaine
With Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the forefront of the silly season in 2016, it’s not at all surprising that there has not been much oxygen left in the room for their vice presidential picks....
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: The Manafort conundrum
Just when you thought the Donald Trump campaign couldn’t get any weirder, his campaign chairman, the opaque but charismatic Paul Manafort, has become embroiled in a political intrigue the likes of...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: Wilder at heart
If I were to tell you that Bertolt Brecht, that scion of 20th century epic theater, was a significant contributor to some of the best of Borscht Belt-style slapstick comedy during the latter part of...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: The problem with Saint Teresa
It’s tricky, even in this day and age, to go after a figure so universally revered and wholly worshiped as the newly sainted Mother Teresa of Calcutta.So beatific is she in the eyes of guilty...
View ArticleJeffrey Gillespie: A confederacy of deplorables
As far as gaffes go, Hillary Clinton and her "basket of deplorables" (when read within the context of her full statement) isn't nearly as bad as conservatives might have you think it is. Unfortunately...
View ArticleChris Honoré: The Republican platform, 2016
As I write this, the Republican convention awaits Donald Trump’s speech wherein he will accept his party’s nomination. His address will attempt to create cohesion for a fractured party marred by chaos...
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