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Martin DyckmanJune 24, 2015

Pope Francis‘s encyclical on saving the world — “our common home” — from what we are doing to it is a powerful appeal to everyone, not just to those who belong to the church he leads. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism — my denomination — praised Francis for having “shone a Catholic spotlight […]

Martin DyckmanJune 23, 2015

Pope Francis’s encyclical on saving the world — “our common home” — from what we are doing to it is a powerful appeal to everyone, not just to those who belong to the church he leads. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism — my denomination — praised Francis for having “shone a Catholic spotlight […]

Martin DyckmanJune 15, 2015

To hear Jeb Bush talk about Social Security is not simply to wonder whether he ever did a hard day’s work in his life, but also to doubt whether he cares that there are millions of people who must. His proposal to raise the full retirement age in stages to 70, which has become a […]

Martin DyckmanJune 15, 2015

To hear Jeb Bush talk about Social Security is not simply to wonder whether he ever did a hard day’s work in his life, but also to doubt whether he cares that there are millions of people who must. His proposal to raise the full retirement age in stages to 70, which has become a […]

Martin DyckmanJune 9, 2015

Were any of your ancestors here to meet the Godspeed at Jamestown or the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock? No? Then you, like me, belong to an immigrant family. Your forebears may have been here longer than mine, who came in the late 1800s, but we are alike in that none of our American roots were […]

Martin DyckmanJune 8, 2015

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Were any of your ancestors here to meet the Godspeed at Jamestown or the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock? No? Then you, like me, belong to an immigrant family. Your forebears may have been here longer than mine, who came in the late 1800s, but we are alike in that none of our American roots were […]

Martin DyckmanJune 1, 2015

With all the horrors continuing to occur in the world, notably including the massacres perpetrated by Boko Haram in Africa and ISIS in the Middle East, the evangelist Franklin Graham has not exactly overlooked them. But it’s to some other crisis that he has been devoting most of his public preaching lately. He’s been praying […]

Martin DyckmanMay 25, 2015

The obituaries for Helen Gordon Davis correctly recounted what one called her “trailblazing” career in the Florida Legislature, where in 1974 she became one of very few women – the first from Hillsborough County – in what a colleague famously called “the land of the Bubbas.” She weathered the sexism and condescension and compiled a […]

Martin DyckmanMay 25, 2015

The obituaries for Helen Gordon Davis correctly recounted what one called her “trailblazing” career in the Florida Legislature, where in 1974 she became one of very few women – the first from Hillsborough County – in what a colleague famously called “the land of the Bubbas.” She weathered the sexism and condescension and compiled a […]

Martin DyckmanMay 21, 2015

Of all the differences between the major parties, one is particularly confounding. Why should Republicans appear to be nearly twice as bloodthirsty as Democrats? According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, overall support for the death penalty has fallen to 56 percent, down six points since 2011 and by 22 since 1996 when 78 […]

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Martin Dyckman: Jeb cherry-picks where to enforce his faith

Martin Dyckman: Jeb Bush cherry-picks where to enforce his faith

Martin Dyckman: Jeb Bush’s apparent indifference to real lives of most Americans

Martin Dyckman: Jeb Bush’s apparent indifference to real lives of most Americans

Why is Jeb Bush the only GOP contender who makes sense on immigration?

Martin Dyckman: Why is Jeb Bush the only GOP contender who makes sense on immigration?

Martin Dyckman: Franklin Graham praying for destruction of the U.S. Constitution

Martin Dyckman: Helen Gordon Davis, an early victim of racial gerrymandering in Florida

Martin Dyckman: Helen Gordon Davis an early victim of racial gerrymandering in Florida

Martin Dyckman: Why do Republicans favor death penalty so much more than Democrats?