June 28, 2024

One Country, Two Different Cities

I have lived in Chicago for over twenty years. I love its architecture, parks, and neighborhoods. I, along with three million residents, call it our home. However, the home has lost its function to protect its residents’ safety and quality of l...

July 26, 2022

Halting the Madness

In his famous poem “The Second Coming,” written in 1919 regarding the end of World War I and its aftermath, the Irish poet W. B. Yeats wrote these memorable lines, “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.”  I doub...

January 23, 2022

Walt Whitman's Vision of America

As an immigrant and later naturalized citizen of the United States, I have always been attracted by what America stands for -- democracy, justice, equality, and hope -- since I was a college student in China forty years ago.  Today as a pro...