7 Jul, 2019
Creative + Strategic = Effective movements for change
“Posit: You and some friends want your town to change a public policy and the city government is ignoring you,...
7 Jul, 2019
Trump-Kim III: Making history without making progress?
“Taking a few steps onto North Korean soil, and posing for pictures with a friendly dictator, seem to fit Trump-era...
6 Jul, 2019
Trouble at the border
“Yes, we have a serious problem at the border — indeed, at every border we create and defend with force...
5 Jul, 2019
Happy Interdependence Day
“Over the years, the traditions and cultural feelings associated with holidays change; Mothers’ Day began as a peace holiday…” Author:...
3 Jul, 2019
An honorable course in Iran: End sanctions, resume dialogue
“Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about…” Author:...
2 Jul, 2019
Provoking World War III with Iran and a U.S. history of provocation
“In the history of the United States and its history of interventionism, the recent attacks on oil tankers in the...
29 Jun, 2019
The Trump way of war
“Notice how similar are the Trump administration’s interactions with Iran and North Korea? The pattern” Author: Mel Gurtov Published in:...
26 Jun, 2019
Revisiting morality in the Age of Dishonesty
“If Donald Trump actually follows through on his recently tweeted promise that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “will begin deporting...
25 Jun, 2019
Trump’s Ministry of No Information
“The Trump administration has halted, without explanation, the routine practice of reporting the current number of nuclear weapons in the...
24 Jun, 2019
Rethinking reparations
“Aaron Campbell was young, black, unarmed, and suffered from mental illness, exacerbated by his brother’s death that day…” Author: Tom...
14 Jun, 2019
We need evidence-based decision making
“Imagine for a moment that political discussions can assume the same evidence-based knowledge as active components in decision making as...
13 Jun, 2019
Father’s Day and a woman’s right to choose
“The old bumper sticker, “Keep Your Laws Off of My Body” isn’t old and isn’t a bumper sticker…” Author: Rob...
12 Jun, 2019
The armed bureaucracy
“ “Sooner or later they end up in a cage, where (they) belong.”…” Author: Robert C. Koehler Published in: Common...
10 Jun, 2019
Whatever happened to an affordable college education?
“As U.S. college students?and their families?know all too well, the cost of a higher education in the United States has...
7 Jun, 2019
Where is a “tank man” for 2019?
“On June 4th, 30 years on, I ruminated to myself about the “tank man” from Tiananmen Square… ” Author: Wim...