OP-ED

"Measure what matters." Those words certainly jumped to mind this summer as leaders from Washington to London sent signals that protecting a safe, livable planet hardly matters because it’s not worth accounting for accurately and honestly.

This country faces a reckoning. The question is whether we will come together or fall apart, move forward or descend toward a moral abyss. In this time of deep discord, of partisan divide, racial tension, extreme inequality, the outcome is far from certain.

"There were no red flags," said Jacksonville Sherriff TK Waters during a news conference about a mass shooting in which a White gunman killed three Black people and himself in a Dollar General store. With the facts that we know now, it is worth counting the number of warning signs.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman are “steering this nation to safety.”

We all are threatened by the wave of extremism that is sweeping through statehouses and school boards and encroaches on the halls of Congress and the Oval Office. The leading exemplar of this extremist agenda has emerged In Florida.

After a summer of discontent and disaffection, we returned to the nation’s capital Saturday to mark 60 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington.

If Donald Trump is the GOP’s superman, then Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is proving to be his kryptonite.

More than 8 million have multiple jobs. Who knows what kind of juggling they are doing? Do any of their jobs provide them with vacations? When do they unplug? Reflect? Get an opportunity to exhale?

For so long now, many of us have been asking ourselves if Donald Trump is going to escape accountability again for his gross behavior.

This month marks the August 28, 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where over a quarter million people gathered and heard my Uncle Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.