21 Apr, 2017
We just paid our taxes — are they making the U.S. and the world safer?
“While we don’t know how much President Donald Trump paid in taxes this year, or even if he paid any...
31 Jan, 2017
Bannon’s Coup
“Stephen K. Bannon, Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has been elevated to the Principals Committee of the National Security Council, the...
9 Jan, 2017
Unfit to command
“During the presidential campaign a significant number of former senior foreign policy and national security officials from both parties spoke…”...
21 Oct, 2016
Commander In Chief
“Maybe it’s the phrase — “Commander in Chief” — that best captures the transcendent absurdity and unaddressed horrors of the...
7 Oct, 2016
Why Aleppo is the symptom of what is wrong with how we deal with atrocities
““Never again!” is once again brought to our attention as we are facing killing and suffering of civilians on a...
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...
4 Aug, 2016
Your Money Better Spent
“Americans are consistently told that we do not have funds to support the programs that uplift people in our society”...
29 Jul, 2016
Voting for Fear
“Watching the electoral cycle this year is like watching an old movie from a warped film reel with the sound...
28 Jul, 2016
WILD TURKEY WITH H-BOMB: Failed Coup Heightens Calls for Denuclearization
“An explosive cocktail of political instability mixed with 90 U.S. H-bombs raises the specter of accidental or suicidal nuclear detonation...
28 Jul, 2016
Real Cooperation with Nations Is the Best Survival Tactic
“Unexamined assumptions are the real dictators in culture and society. Too many people in the U.S. believe that human beings...
21 Jul, 2016
Volatile America
“In a flash I thought, oh God, the civil war has started. Then the headlines shifted and, for the moment,...
17 Jul, 2016
The Superpowers Are Violent Powers
“If asked to identify the world’s superpowers today, most people would name the United States, Russia, and China. Although many...
16 Jul, 2016
Many States Out of Step with the Constitution on the Use of Force by Police
“Recently, President Obama held a town hall meeting to address the growing tension between minority communities and police forces after...
15 Jul, 2016
China’s Bad Day in Court
“As had been widely expected, the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea...
14 Jul, 2016
The God of War
“There’s Mars, the god of war, perched in a parking garage in Dallas, annihilating the enemy with utter impunity. Mars,...