WILLIAM A. GRALNICK

Some things really bother me. For instance the commercials for a product making great claims against difficult illnesses that end with,...

This is a self-examination of racism, a look at a non-racist racist. It should be helpful to anyone who reads it, but certainly to...

Preface: I offer this piece as a beginning for an outline for peace. It speaks to police reform, but it starts with an attempt at...

As some of you know, I was once the only white administrator in an all black anti-poverty agency. It was like going to graduate school....

Amazing things have been going on in the dog world. There is nary a hound to be had. Some rescue organizations have announced that for...

Friends–this is a re-run. I wrote it last November. Suddenly the subject, the Electoral College, is back in the news again. “To have or...

The almost routine killing of another black man by a white man, in this case two, has at least a new wrinkle to add some interest. The...

You remember or have heard of Sportin’ Life, I’m sure. He was the devil incarnate in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. While drugs were what he...

The Grand Opening : It turns out it won’t be so grand, no Fourth of July hooray with bells, whistles, firecrackers and the doors of...

My bride and I have not done anything newspaper worthy in dealing with the quarantine. We have established a routine that is engaging...

Here’s what this is not, a treasure map where “X” marks the spot. This is an article dragging me back into political science, a subject...

I’m so disgusted with what’s going on outside that I decided to keep my thoughts this week about inside, more or less. Somethings I’ve...

Certainly, I have it better than Napoleon. But but the novel corona virus has made me appreciate what the poor guy went through. Here’s a...

The other day a Washington Post writer wrote a a modern history of epidemic/pandemic events in the US and wove into it how the economy...

I come from a medical family. I know how to wash my hands. All my role models washed their hands like they were scrubbing for surgery, no...

He’s 90. He still works part-time. He served valiantly in Korea and is a decorated veteran. His baseball cap imprinted with his service...

My daughter-in-law went to Costco at the beginning of the week. She said she hadn’t seen that many  people there since the last hurricane...

Remember Lightning Bugs (Fire Flies to some)? Whether we were in the country for a vacation or I was on the street in Brooklyn at night,...

Like Joe Friday, just the facts that Uncle Donald wants you… to believe that any facts are fake that he doesn’t believe to believe that...

I just came from a funeral. It was one of those “too soon” funerals. A deputy sheriff friend of mine, married 28 years, 3 children,...