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The mentoring circle: Supportive relationships across generations A Whitehouse photo taken for former President Barack Obama's "My Brother's Keeper" mentoring program. January is Mentoring Month, January 17 International Mentoring Day — with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday a day of service.  (January is also Human Trafficking Awareness Month, underscoring one risk of a lack of positive mentoring and other adult presences in a young person’s life.) Supportive, cross-generational relationships help young people to develop socially/emotionally and academically—as well as adults to grow...

Evidence not clear that Trump incited Capitol destruction ) should make us be able to come together around that and move on with a common understanding. Truth and objectivity should be what brings us together, not pushes us apart, but at least for the last four years such ideals have been willfully tossed aside in order to engage in the war of words. Obviously, Trump is the main offender, but he is but one politician (granted the “biggest” politician) and he does it more offensively and with less sophistication than most practiced politicians. (No, apparently he can’t learn from his dum...

Securing our nuclear legacy: An open letter to President-elect Joe Biden Dear President-elect Biden, As you noted in a tweet shortly after protestors stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, “Today is a reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile.” Indeed it is. And so are nation-states. The fall of the Soviet Union is surely well-cemented in your memory. And history shows time and again that empires end, sometimes surprisingly quickly. There could come a point, in the far more immediate future than we would like or expect, that the American experiment fails, that our democratic systems o...

The revolution will proceed reclining: the Capitol mob, their past, and the future of democracy Looking at pictures of Richard “Bigo” Barnett in the U.S. Capitol last week, grinning, his foot resting on a staffer’s desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and his arms extended, I recognized a jarringly familiar if initially hard to place tableau. Barnett appeared to be acting, according to Saul Loeb, the Agence France Press photographer who snapped the picture, “just sort of like he owned the place.” Where had I seen this before? Barnett and I are the same age, 60, and we’re bot...

Last votes of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Vanessa McGee, far left, and her husband Sam McGee take a selfie with their children after voting last November at the Hartford Public Library. Finally, the election season is over. The historic elections we saw in this cycle were intriguing. The runoff elections for the U.S. Senate in Georgia put a cap on the campaign season. For many people this could be described as a COVID-19 election. I would argue that this was an election influenced by a pandemic but determined by the killing of unarmed Black people with n...