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Robert Koehler
Koehler rejects the status quo, using his column to expose hidden truths about policy and society. His column gives a searing portrayal of the world from an outsider's perspective, and his bold views help define the debate on a wide range of subjects, including war, education and ethics. Koehler forces readers to pick a side and get in the conversation.
Robert Koehler Samples
The Barbara tree
My daughter went jogging to the lake. When I went out to investigate, sure enough, it was still there, a brightly painted, reddish-orange papier-mache bird, daggling on a wire from a low branch.
Transforming troubled schools
What happened? Can the world shift on such a simple question? And then you wait for an answer. What were you thinking at the time? What have you thought about since? What do you think you need to do to make things right?
Works in progress
I'm sitting in my daughter's Baltimore apartment thinking about works in progress.
The dignity of corpses
Civilization hasn't successfully drawn a moral border at the sanctity of human life itself, but because it needs to put some limit on human behavior, it has, apparently, taken a last stand at the dignity of corpses.
A momentum of cynicism
"But no matter how futile, repulsive or dysfunctional war may be," Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in her book "Blood Rites," "it persists."
The hollow democracy
Maybe they're trying to remind us that democracy isn't merely a matter of casting that little vote once every Leap Year -- but, far, far more significantly, it's about getting that right to vote in the first place, keeping that right, and having i...
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