Levine: Today’s hate proves everything old is new again
The United Nations designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorated this week, to remember the six million Jewish victims and millions of other victims of the Holocaust.
Levine: Ladies night’s new decade
It's 2020, and there's a lot of buzz about stand-out stories of the last decade. One of my favorites is the proposed replacement of the statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest with one of Country Music's Dolly Parton.
Levine: Mother Nature’s daughters are cleaning up
We all understand the retail exhaustion of this season, but did the driver of a random car passing by have to toss his empty soda can onto my front lawn?
Levine: Swastikas and nooses – campus hate speech or free speech?
Never heard of UHBIOC? Think again. The initials stand for Uncivil, Hate and Bias Incidents on Campus and rarely a week goes by without an incident on campuses.
Levine: Reporting and counteracting hate is everbody’s job
Reporters haven't lacked for stories about hate groups and lone wolves, whether it's Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue, Milwaukee's acid attack on a Latino, Dallas' shooting of a transgender woman, or El Paso's Walmart massacre.
Levine: How can we talk about race?
Discussions about race are rarely comfortable, but the wrangling over the term "white privilege" used at a Hamilton County Schools' teacher training definitely increased our discomfort level.
Levine: Don’t underestimate Putin’s threat
Ukrainian-born Comedian Yakov Smirnoff jokingly said Russia's secret police, the KGB, stood for Kiss Goodbye Your Butt. That was decades before another comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, became Ukraine's president. But Zelenskyy knows there's nothing funny about Russia's annexation of the eastern part of his country.
Levine: We’re lost in space
What should I write about in these incredibly tumultuous times?
Levine: All is not lost
In a month where there seems no end to disasters, scandals and threats, I celebrated my birthday looking for a ray of hope.
Levine: Foreign aid in peril and so are we
When President Trump threatened to cut off $4 billion in foreign aid, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition emailed how cuts could limit the response to outbreaks of the deadly ebola virus.
