Marty Levine

Marty Levine August 5, 2022 In 1964,  Martin Luther King Jr. ended his sermon at the commencement exercises for Wesleyan University’s graduating class, drawing on words first spoken a...

Marty Levine August 2, 2022 Last Wednesday Senators Manchin and Schumer issued a joint statement declaring they had reached a historic agreement. In their joint statement they said that...

LevelMarty Levine July 27, 2022 From the moment I wake up until I shut down my iPad, ready to sleep, I am constantly asked to donate. At 6.30 a.m.,...

Marty Levine July 19, 2022 In 1968, when I was a graduate student, I was deeply involved in protesting the ongoing war in Viet Nam, the Civil Rights Movement,...

Marty Levine July 11, 2022 Highland Park, Illinois is just 17 miles north of where I live. It is a community I have worked in, often having meetings in...

July 6, 2022 Money may not be able to buy you love but it certainly can buy you a lot of political influence. Since 1976, when the Supreme Court...

Marty Levine June 30, 2022 What happens in Washington is important. We need only to look back over the last few weeks to know that this is true. The...

Marty Levine June 26, 2022 I woke Wednesday morning to the glorious news that our “Senators hail ‘bipartisan breakthrough’ on gun safety legislation”  It will be, we are told...

Marty Levine June 20, 2022 Years ago, I met the Israeli author A. B. Yehoshua in a Haifa University classroom looking out over the blue waters of the Mediterranean...

Marty Levine June 13, 2022 Every one of my news feeds flashed alerts on Sunday that a bipartisan group of 20 Senators had reached agreement on what they described...