23 Jul, 2020
Standing up to the armed and inarticulate
“Here’s a quietly unsettling moment from the current cries for change churning across the nation:…” Robert C. Koehler Published in:...
16 Jul, 2020
Cultural genocide continues
““There are so many . . . primitive tribes — they don’t understand anything.” The global movement to end racism...
9 Jul, 2020
What about armed protests?
“Change. Now. I get that, and understand the symbolism of packed heat. A gun says: We mean business…” Robert C....
2 Jul, 2020
Is the nation opening its soul?
“Topple a few statues, remove some iconic names from American institutions . . . and the ghosts of the past...
24 Jun, 2020
Seattle’s cauldron of possibility
“Maybe CHOP won’t last, but something is changing. Our national groupthink, as maintained with such stalwart certainty over the last...
17 Jun, 2020
Defunding ‘justified’ murder
“Well, he deserved to die, didn’t he? He fought, he ran, he grabbed the cop’s taser and fired it. And...
4 Jun, 2020
The knee for change
“Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The...
28 May, 2020
Policing and the sanctity of life
“his is so much bigger than personal accountability. Yes, the four police officers present at the Memorial Day killing of...
20 May, 2020
Rethinking public safety: Trust vs. force
““Guns aren’t just a danger in and of themselves,” writes Noah Berlatsky at Quartz. “They enable a policing philosophy built...
14 May, 2020
Racism and the national soul
“How deep does American racism go? And is it possible to uproot it?” Robert C. Koehler Published in: Bainbridge Island...
7 May, 2020
Can we achieve nuclear adulthood?
““I’ll never tire of repeating: We need to demilitarize world affairs, international politics and political thinking.” What if a world...
29 Apr, 2020
A united world must break out of prison
“At a time when the president wants to reopen the economy — but not the borders! — it’s time to...
22 Apr, 2020
Moral injury and the pandemic of violence
““The vet in the mirror may be wounded in the soul — and it is your duty to carry this...
16 Apr, 2020
War, irony and the new normal
“The uber-irony about the deadly coronavirus is that, as it claims lives, endangers millions and interrupts the social normal…” Robert...
1 Apr, 2020
Developing a vaccine against war
“What if the vaccine that’s eventually developed is so large in scope it includes the words of UN Secretary-General António...