29 Jan, 2017
Lurching backward
“We are now officially in a New Age of Chaos, created by Donald Trump and his close advisors. Who ever...
29 Jan, 2017
Fake News? Fake President!
“The Donald Trump “way” is to shout foul any time he is criticized, for as we have discovered, this man...
27 Jan, 2017
2 ½ Minutes to Midnight – Our World in Peril
“The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday its latest nuclear Doomsday Clock. In so doing they moved the symbolic minute...
26 Jan, 2017
Reclaiming Our Democracy
“On Saturday, January 21, I joined somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 people in downtown Los Angeles as the city made...
26 Jan, 2017
The Birth of a Movement
“The sense of resistance was fierce: “Grab ’em by the profits” . . . “Keep your hands out of my...
26 Jan, 2017
How To Make Enemies
“About two weeks ago I wrote a commentary, “Unfit to Command,” which argues that Donald Trump lacks the temperament, intelligence,...
26 Jan, 2017
Inaugurating the Majori-Tea Party
“We marched in all 50 states. Several of the largest demonstrations were in the hundreds of thousands. In total, millions...
22 Jan, 2017
Trump’s America—and Ours
“Abraham Lincoln once said: “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen...
20 Jan, 2017
January 20, 2017, a day that will live in ignominy
“Donald J. Trump has been inaugurated as the 45th President of the US. If you are a xenophobic isolationist nationalist,...
19 Jan, 2017
Guns Against Grizzlies at Schools or Peace Education as Resistance?
“The inauguration of a new President is looming and incoming administration officials like billionaire Betsy DeVos—Trump’s pick for Secretary of...
19 Jan, 2017
Donald Trump’s Lies And Team Trump’s Headaches
“We are all aware that Donald Trump lies—repeatedly, and without remorse. That is outrageous enough; but equally outrageous is the...
19 Jan, 2017
Religious madness in Ulster
“Back in 1986, I went with an editor group to Northern Ireland, where we saw religio-political horror in full bloom…”...
17 Jan, 2017
A Peace Agenda for the New Administration
“The looming advent of the Trump administration in Washington threatens to worsen an already deeply troubling international situation….” Lawrence Wittner...
15 Jan, 2017
“Where Do We Go from Here?”
“That question was a touchstone for The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the last year of his life....
13 Jan, 2017
The Light of the World
“There are two things that too many of us seem to be reluctant to take in about present conditions on...