This is Arab American Heritage Month and we are delighted that it has been celebrated by the State Department, dozens of state and local governments, and the Democratic Party.

We all owe Farah Nabulsi an enormous debt of gratitude. In a short 24-minute film, “The Present”, she has exposed the oppressive indecency of the Israeli occupation while telling the deeply moving story of a Palestinian family.

It has been a decade since the conflict in Syria began, and the toll has been staggering. Over one-half million have been killed, a quarter of whom are civilians.

At the conclusion of Israel’s fourth election in two years, the picture that emerges is as clear as mud.

Israelis are going to the polls for the fourth time in two years.

The second week in March marks two devastating anniversaries. On March 11, 2020, Eileen, my beloved wife of 51 years, passed away. She had a stroke in November of 2019 and after a long period of recovery and rehabilitation, she was scheduled to come home on March 13th.

In 1967, the Kerner Commission, created by president Lyndon Johnson to investigate the riots that had engulfed America’s cities, concluded that “Our nation is moving towards two societies, one black, one white  —  separate and unequal.”As this past year’s mass demonstra

I was pleased when I heard that Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was committed to creating a commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection.

I’m writing this column in the midst of the Senate trial of Donald J. Trump.