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Republican’s Spew Harmful Rhetoric
While President Trump and his Senate enablers have made the wealthy even wealthier, the Democratic House continues to pass bills meant to meet the basic needs of everyday citizens, especially during the pandemic. The Republicans’ response? Make the term socialism…
Compassionate Intervention
A few summers ago, a distressed, disheveled, probably homeless woman was delivering a disjointed speech to Paramount Theater patrons waiting on line to get in. Most people ignored her. Some gazed at her surreptitiously. Suddenly, a police car drove up, and out came a…
The Shrine of the Unholy Donald
Covid-19 requires Americans to face harsh truths. We must dismantle the sacrosanct American myth that deifies individualism so that we can embrace the social responsibility imperatives that will defeat this pandemic. When Trump refuses to require all Americans to…
Blatantly illegal’
Barbara Chiarello
October 17, 2025
I’m confused. During his 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump said Mexico was sending us murderers, rapists and drug dealers. To keep them out, he promised to build a wall that Mexico would pay for. Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star on March 6, 2021, to “combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas.” […]
Hello. I’m Dr. Barbara Chiarello.
I graduated from Brooklyn College and earned my Ph.D. in English literature at The University of Texas at Arlington. I have published in newspapers and magazines as a journalist, authored several academic articles as a UT Arlington graduate student and English professor, and published in Huston-Tillotson University’s literary journal, 900 Chicon; The University of Texas at Arlington’s Stimulus: A Medical Humanities Journal; in The Galitzianer: The Journal of Gesher Galicia and Toasted Cheese.
Over the past decade my letters to the editor have appeared in The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Austin Chronicle and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Austin American-Statesman.
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