Marty Levine

Marty Levine November 9, 2021 When I posted What Phil Ochs Taught Me in 1966 Remains a Lesson for Today on Sunday little did I know that the New...

Marty Levine November 7, 2021 In 1962 Michael Harrington published “The Other America: Poverty in the United States” and showed us the painful underbelly of our free-market economy and...

Marty Levine 11/2/2021 In the last days of October, the American Jewish Congress (AJC) breathlessly released the findings of it most recent study of the state of anti-Semitism in...

Marty Levine 10/29/21 This is what systemic racism looks like: It is a map of Chicago. It is a map of where Chicago Police made a total of 327,224...

Marty Levine October 27, 2021 We are an unsettled nation. The issues we are struggling with may not be new, but the way we seem to be approaching them...

Marty Levine October 19, 2021 In the last months, Carole and  I have driven across the country. From Chicago to Salt Lake City (UT) to Encinitas (CA) to Albuquerque...

Marty Levine October 12, 2021 In 1968, shortly before he was murdered, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, was still giving us hope that we would overcome. Speaking at the...

Marty Levine October 6, 2021 The hope that this time would be different and that long-awaited significant systemic change would emerge from the hard-fought 2020 election is quickly fading....

Marty Levine October 3, 2021 Earlier this month I wrote about the complicated nature of modern philanthropy. How good intentions may not be enough to correct a seriously unbalanced...

Marty Levine September 20, 2021` The stress that COVID-19 has placed on the US economy and our system of governance has made it harder to ignore the glaring flaws...