15 Aug, 2017
What Did Dr. King Mean by Love?
“As someone who regularly teaches about the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I often spend time discussing with...
11 Aug, 2017
A Proposal to Move from Threats to Talks with North Korea
“What might it take to create a breakthrough to resumption of US-North Korea talks? The experiences of prior diplomacy suggest...
10 Aug, 2017
Weed
“Fifty years ago I was speculating with a college friend of mine about what we might do with our lives…”...
10 Aug, 2017
Playing Nuclear “Chicken” With Our Lives
“What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally unstable national leaders, in an escalating confrontation with each other…”...
9 Aug, 2017
Trump’s Threats
“The problem with Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” statement on North Korea isn’t merely that it intensifies an already tense...
9 Aug, 2017
Terrorism for profit
“Donald Trump stands cluelessly at the edge of history, exemplifying everything wrong with the past, oh, 10,000 years or so…”...
6 Aug, 2017
Hope this Hiroshima Day
“Finally, 72 years after the US dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki…” Robert...
5 Aug, 2017
Are we Egypt?
“When the world watched Egyptians bravely gather en masse in Tahrir Square in Cairo in January 2011 to Arab Spring...
2 Aug, 2017
Reaching Paris Without Stopping in Washington
“History may record that the planet’s climate crisis was avoided thanks to the efforts of three countries: China, Germany, and...
31 Jul, 2017
Dancing with fear
“I knew there was a war on against cancer and, oh yeah, drugs, illiteracy, poverty, crime and, of course, terror,...
28 Jul, 2017
Now
“We have been living with nuclear weapons for 72 years, so that must make them safe and sustainable, right?…” Tom...
27 Jul, 2017
Opening Gitmo to the world
“To read Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo is to run your mind along the contours of hell…”...
26 Jul, 2017
Jamboree travesty
“I don’t blame the Boy Scouts for President Donald Trump’s bizarre speech at the National Jamboree in West Virginia on...
26 Jul, 2017
There Is Still Time, Brother
“Like many citizens for whom the daily headlines are an invitation to ponder the mental health of our political leaders…”...
25 Jul, 2017
What is Adelanto?
“If you take Interstate 15 about two hours north from Los Angeles, heading into the high desert of San Bernardino...