3 Jan, 2018
The button, the wall and the myth of nations
““Mr. Kim may be partly motivated by an intense need to roll back sanctions that, by all accounts, have begun...
14 Dec, 2017
Peace on the far side of nuclear weapons
““. . . real security can only be shared . . .” I call it news in a cage: the...
6 Dec, 2017
Rebuilding Jim Crow Nation
“Dred Scott lives! With the Supreme Court’s declaration that President Trump’s third version of a Muslim travel ban is now...
29 Nov, 2017
Reopening the doors of perception
“In a time of endless war and triumphant cynicism, I found myself the other day unexpectedly walking through the doors...
18 Nov, 2017
Empowering the vulnerable
“OK, here’s a good one: What’s the position of women in the antiwar movement? This was circa 1967, when I...
15 Nov, 2017
Trapped in ‘a man’s world’
“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold . . .The “man’s world” I grew up is shattering into fragments of...
9 Nov, 2017
The illusion of armed salvation
“This time, the “the fire and the fury” of American mass murder erupted in church. Twenty-six people were killed, including...
25 Oct, 2017
Praying for the moths and beetles
“And instantly I’m beyond the realm of anything I know, as I consider the gradual disappearance not of whales but...
18 Oct, 2017
A country, and a future, worth serving
“America’s endless war quietly moves across the broken nations of the world. Every so often, U.S. soldiers die, as four...
15 Oct, 2017
The calm before the storm
“Every time Donald Trump blurts or tweets a shocker — “maybe it’s the calm before the storm,” for instance —...
4 Oct, 2017
The violence comes home again
“In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, as in the wake of all the high-profile mass shootings that preceded...
27 Sep, 2017
The courage to kneel
“Kneel, touch the earth. “Oh say can you see . . . ” The anthem starts. I can feel the...
21 Sep, 2017
Reclaiming the truth about Vietnam
“OK, I get it. Soldiers suffer, soldiers die in the wars we wage, and the commander in chief has to,...
13 Sep, 2017
Court convenes: Healing and justice meet
“The speaker is Colleen Sheehan, the presiding judge of the Restorative Justice Community Court, which opened last week in the...
6 Sep, 2017
Begging for war
““There are no good options,” Brian Williams said the other night on MSNBC, launching a discussion about North Korea with...