6 Minutes With Brad Hirschfield: Politics and culture through a spiritual lens

It may sound inspiring, but the message behind the latest Nike ad is actually a lesson in extremism.

Why the SCOTUS decision should be causing reflection rather than anger or concern.

I let my visceral anger about Trump blind me to an injustice being corrected. And this is something I've seen happen in more and more people.

Chelsea Handler justified her body shaming of Sarah Huckabee Sanders by calling Sanders "pure evil." But it is exactly that justification that has led to so many problems in the world.

Republican support of a known sexual abuser shows just how much women are worth to us as a nation.

That distinction is really significant precisely because we need to pay close, careful and ongoing attention to the issues of sexual harassment in our culture.

For those of us who are pleased about the results of yesterday's election, there is also a danger. In the long term, it is the only way we can make yesterday's results truly effective.

So often, our instinct is to act to change things when tragedy occurs. But if we want the change to be real, and effective, we must first deeply feel the reason we want that change.

The kneeling debate has become so polarizing that it is almost impossible to find something within it that can unify us as a nation. But we must try.

The Israeli Ultra-Orthodox response to a recent Supreme Court decision requiring them to take part in mandatory military service has been to call for a bill that would not just subvert the decision, but not allow the Supreme Court to rule against it. This is a terrifying attack on the Israeli government's checks and balances, and one that we must speak up about.

But there is also much more to this, and lessons that we can gain not just about Israeli politics, but about our own lives.