I spend far too much time on Facebook trying to have rational discussions with people of differing views. Sometimes these encounters shed some light on a topic or, as a minimum, are polite exchanges without commonality. More often, my counterpart is so entrenched in hi...

The current wave of hate against certain groups is nothing new in the history of the US or the history of man, as Adam L. Silver writes.....

Or to finish the quote from Kohelet/Ecclesiastes: “There is nothing new under the sun…”

In the 19th Century the US was gripped wi...