Martin Levine

Marty Levine March 30, 2025 Driving home yesterday, my wife saw a similar billboard along a Chicago street. This morning, I listened to NPR’s Morning Edition refer to recent...

Marty Levine March 27, 2025 Comments from A Rally In Chicago Almost 60 years ago I was Mahmoud Khalil I was a Columbia University Graduate student I was a...

Marty Levine March 16, 2025 We have come to a moment of choice for many in the American Jewish Community.  Which is more important for them: their support for...

  Marty Levine March 11, 2025 The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently released its annual list of the nation’s 50 largest donors for 2024, “Philanthropy 50”.  After years of writing...

Marty Levine March 4, 2025 It can’t be only me who feels the pain of Hamas’ hostages, their families and neighbors and also feels the pain of Palestinian families...

Marty Levine February 24, 2025 After last weekend’s CPAC gathering, my news feeds were awash with pictures of Elon Musk wielding a very large chainsaw. He got it as...

Marty Levine February 17, 2025 It will be 60 years ago this coming Sunday when about 25,000 Americans took to the streets to add their voices and bodies to...

Marty Levine February 5, 2025 It’s taken less than a month and I am again fixating on George Orwell’s warning that is  his novel “1984” Who controls the past...

NY Times Marty Levine January 31, 2025 In the second week of the second Trump Presidency, we can see clearly how he and his acolytes envision the nation.  As...

Marty Levine January 23, 2025 [1]My father was a wandering Aramean[i] My mother was a wandering Byelorussian I began my comments at a recent Chicago City Council meeting with...