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“Patriots enlist and defend their country. They work hard, do their best, raise good families. They help their neighbors. They perform civic duties. They grit their teeth and pay their taxes. Then they show up and vote. They compete, they win or lose, but they do both with grace. These are some of the things patriots do. “Patriots do not storm their own Capitol over a lost election. They do not bum-rush members of Congress. They do not assault strangers. They do not push and shove police officers and trash federal buildings. These are things criminals do, and criminals of any political st...

Ron Rolheiser columnWeek of January 10 2021 What is Love Asking of Us Now? “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Anne Lamott Those are words worth contemplating, on all sides of the political and religious divide today. We live in a time of bitter division. From our government offices down to

TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin: “On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was…

A Look Back: From the Gazette Archive 50 Years Ago ■Attorney William Stringfellow and poet Anthony Towne have acknowledged they did “offer and give sustenance and lodging” to the Rev. Daniel Berrigan while he was being sought by federal authorities. Berrigan was convicted in April of destroying draft records and was arrested on Block Island in a house owned by Stringfellow and Towne. Stringfellow is a Northampton native. ■A fire destroyed one of the oldest houses in Huntington on Sunday night. The home, owned by Deane S. Clark of Springfield, was built in the 1800s and had recently b...

press freedom, 40 years ago james goodale from the new york times when the nixon administration attempted to block the paper's publication of the pentagon papers, the secret history of the vietnam war, leaked by daniel ellsberg. then, environmental activist tim dechristopher recently released from prison joins us in the studio. >> there are a lot of things we have tried, most of which have not worked, especially on climate change, on trying to get our government to do something about climate change. mostly, we need people taking action. nobody can really tell you what that action sho...