8 Mar, 2025
Save Liberal Democracy – Life Depends on It
Save Liberal Democracy – Life Depends on It by Bob Topper 1230 words Civilization’s progress since the Age of Reason,...
8 Mar, 2025
5 Dec, 2024
The Emperor Has No Clothes: COP29
The Emperor Has No Clothes: COP29 by Sovaida Ma’ani Ewing 784 words The ability to see and accept things as...
22 Sep, 2024
Science vs Opinion: Consequences
Science vs Opinion: Consequences by Wim Laven 552 words These days it seems like there has been a death of...
2 Sep, 2024
The Great Crossing: From Competition to “Coöperatism”
The Great Crossing: From Competition to “Coöperatism” by Winslow Myers 820 words A generation ago South Africa looked into twin...
27 Jul, 2024
Humanity Has Two Choices: Political Unification or Mass-Suicide
Humanity Has Two Choices: Political Unification or Mass-Suicide by Sovaida Ma’ani Ewing 854 words The intensifying cascade of global crises...
18 Jul, 2024
Beyond Contradiction to Interdependence
Beyond Contradiction to Interdependence by Winslow Myers 725 words President Biden’s heartfelt comments on American political violence, while the United...
28 Jun, 2024
Happy Talk? Nope
Happy Talk? Nope by Tom H. Hastings 662 words The three most likely methods by which the human species can...
7 Jan, 2024
The Year Ahead: Ten Issues and One Wild Card
The Year Ahead: Ten Issues and One Wild Card by Mel Gurtov 831 words 2024 is likely to be filled...
11 Sep, 2023
Stop Fighting over Deck Chairs While the Ship Is on Fire and Sinking!
Stop Fighting over Deck Chairs While the Ship Is on Fire and Sinking! by John Miksad 705 words We are...
13 Mar, 2023
War: Still Not Healthy for Children
War: Still Not Healthy for Children by Paul Hellweg 750 words If you’re old enough to remember the slogan “War...
13 Nov, 2022
The need for global unity: How world law can save us all
If humanity is to survive in the face of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and international political conflict, our best option is to adopt the mindset with which world leaders approached the enormous task of ensuring global peace following the horrors of World War II.
13 Oct, 2022
Putin’s on the ballot
Putin’s on the ballot by Tom H. Hastings 478 words Really, everything’s on the ballot. We hear that reproductive rights...
28 Aug, 2022
The dance of sympathy
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I recently joined a gathering of people highly concerned with a range of threats, from war to climate catastrophe and more.
29 Apr, 2022
No more Earth Days!
We don’t need, indeed can’t tolerate, any more Earth Days during which we salve our consciences and then go back to a world that is grossly and unsustainably over-populated...
30 Oct, 2021
Dim Prospects for Climate Mitigation
Just in time for the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration has released the National Intelligence Estimate: Climate Change and International Responses Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040...