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...
30 May, 2019
Shattering the context of war
“The U.S. government protects itself, not democracy. That’s what is most apparent about its 18-count indictment of Julian Assange, not...
29 May, 2019
Russia wins, but it isn’t over yet
“On May 29th Robert Mueller, Special Counsel of the Department of Justice told us: ‘If we had confidence the president...
28 May, 2019
Politicizing a woman’s body
“That’s the uber-message quietly emerging from the new anti-abortion laws recently passed in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio and Missouri, no matter...
27 May, 2019
Day of bad memory
“The frustration I experience with dishonest politics reached a peak with Memorial Day this year…” Author: Wim Laven Published in:...
26 May, 2019
How about a peace race instead of an arms race?
“In late April, the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported that, in 2018, world military expenditures rose…” Author: Lawrence...
25 May, 2019
Fake news about energy, clean and dirty
“I used to listen to Freakonomics, an interesting podcast, until it called nuclear energy clean and nonpolluting…” Author: Tom H....
25 May, 2019
Another Fake “Emergency”
“Just a few months ago Saudi Arabia’s leader, Mohammed bin-Salman (MBS), was on the defensive…” Author: Mel Gurtov Published in:...
24 May, 2019
The bottom line: Go for the money
“It’s rare to hear business magazines admit the power of nonviolent action…” Author: Rivera Sun Published in: Yolo County Enterprise,...