5 Mar, 2021
Where We Are and Where We’re Headed
Where We Are and Where We’re Headed by Mel Gurtov 534 words As the Biden administration settles in, let’s pause...
5 Mar, 2021
4 Mar, 2021
Taking war personally
Taking war personally By Robert C. Koehler “For Washington, it seems that whatever the problem is, the answer is bombing.”...
3 Mar, 2021
Planned Human Obsolescence
This academic term I’m teaching my college courses fully online; a year into the global pandemic of COVID-19, and it’s not safe to public health for classes to be held face-to-face...
2 Mar, 2021
Blood for Oil
Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team...
1 Mar, 2021
Nine Decades of Progress
Nine Decades of Progress by James A. Haught 785 words I’ll be 90 on my next birthday. My long life is...
28 Feb, 2021
The Exploration of Space as a Project of Humanity
The exploration of space began with national rivalries at the time of Sputnik, but since about Apollo-Soyuz (1975) it has become an international project...
27 Feb, 2021
Zoonoses and Climate Change: Is One Health Enough?
Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are animal infections that people can catch. Viruses, bacteria, parasites...
26 Feb, 2021
A Rapidly-Globalizing World Needs Strengthened Global Governance
The world is currently engulfed in crises—most prominently, a disease pandemic, a climate catastrophe, and the prevalence of war...
25 Feb, 2021
Windmills: the new scapegoat
The cornerstone of every social structure is its belief system, and those who control and benefit the most from the system have one primary job:
24 Feb, 2021
A Blizzard. A Power Outage. A Failure of the Heart.
A continent-wide snow storm swept across the United States last week...
23 Feb, 2021
Biden’s Opportunity with China
The dominant view of China in both Washington and in American public opinion is that the United States...
23 Feb, 2021
The Good, The Bad and the Profound
January 29th marked the day the United States of America rejoined the Paris Climate Accords and is back in the global fight against the climate chaos...
18 Feb, 2021
Vulnerability in the moment
Pardon me while I break the fourth wall. I’m in the human stew right now, you might say: drowning in politics, technology, the weather and my own crazy ego. I’m trying to write a column.
17 Feb, 2021
Profiles in pusillanimity
A very young John F. Kennedy, World War II skipper of the small stricken PT 109, showed selfless courage and dogged persistence...
14 Feb, 2021
A Second Civil War?
A Second Civil War? by Winslow Myers 920 words I believe the Second Amendment, whatever the Founders meant by it,...