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People experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, March 27, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic (CNS/Reuters/Shannon Stapleton) Amazing, isn't it, how quickly life changes, becomes good again, gets resolved? Goes back to "normal." Maybe. At least we seem to think so. We are on our way, the understanding is, to social and, most of all, political "normalcy." You can almost hear the sighs of relief. The second "long, national nightmare" — President Gerald Ford's name for the events leading up to and including Richard Nixon's resignation of the American presidency — "is ov...

(Unsplash/Ryan Stone) It is two weeks since the attack on the Capitol of this democratic republic by a single-minded but diverse group of Trumpists — dissenters, white supremacists, thugs, the delusional and Republicans. That energy, it appears, arises from a kind of cult following of past-President Donald Trump. It certainly does not come out of either a love for the Constitution or a love for a country already struggling to find its way through a society and a globe in transition. It leaves us riven. It shakes the tectonic plates of our society. It sends us, under the sh...