30 Aug, 2016
What’s Really Behind the Election
“You don’t have to be a poet to breathe new possibilities into an old, familiar metaphor. Recently, for example, author...
27 Aug, 2016
Does the Democratic Party Have a Progressive Platform–and Does It Matter?
“Shortly after the Democratic Party’s platform committee concluded its deliberations this July, Bernie Sanders announced: “Thanks to the millions of...
27 Aug, 2016
Races about race
“His latest—telling African Americans that they are doing lousy so “what the hell have you got to lose?” is his...
26 Aug, 2016
The Sane Candidate: Which Representatives Will End the Endless Wars?
“”You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake,” said Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected...
25 Aug, 2016
Alternatives to military intervention in Syria
“Alternatives to military intervention in Syria. In June the influential Center for New American Security (CNAS) issued a report that...
25 Aug, 2016
The Heart of Order
“He’d left the water running, flooding neighbors’ apartments. He’d been running around outside naked. By the time police arrived, he...
24 Aug, 2016
Accountability: An Abandoned American Value
“If our cars fatally malfunctioned as often as police officers shoot citizens, there would be a massive recall, pulling vehicles...
18 Aug, 2016
Beyond Winning and Losing
“It’s the smallest thing in the world. Does the tennis ball land inside the line or outside? But somehow, as...
17 Aug, 2016
How Trump Deals
“The revelation from a New York Times investigation that Donald Trump’s chief campaign adviser, Paul Manafort, was on the take...
14 Aug, 2016
Dignity and Respect During an Election Year
“During election years, pent-up frustrations, simmering animosities, and the toxic legacy of countless hours of hate talk radio erupt from...
11 Aug, 2016
The Nuclear Breakfast Menu
“Donald Trump is a reckless fool. But the U.S. defense establishment is M.A.D. And herein lies one of the darker...
8 Aug, 2016
Protecting Floridians: Zika, Poisonous Water, and Gun Violence
“Is there anywhere else in the US that is experiencing anything like this? For the past several days, there have...
6 Aug, 2016
Trump Wrong on Iran Deal
“Donald Trump keeps criticizing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the Iran Deal); he couldn’t be more wrong, it has...
6 Aug, 2016
Hiroshima, Presidential Campaigns and Our Nuclear Future
“Seventy-one years ago on August 6th and 9th the world entered the nuclear age with the bombings of Hiroshima and...
5 Aug, 2016
What’s Best for Children?
“The policy of nuclear deterrence is a raging failure masked as a roaring success. It is a failure because if...