17 Aug, 2024
Speak softly and carry a big BATNA
Speak softly and carry a big BATNA by Tom H. Hastings 661 words Guns. Does any country on Earth have...
17 Aug, 2024
5 May, 2024
India, Israel, and America’s Double Standard
India, Israel, and America’s Double Standard by Mel Gurtov 866 words India is hailed as the world’s biggest democracy, and...
28 Mar, 2024
American Democracy vs. Fascist Autocracy
American Democracy vs. Fascist Autocracy by Bob Topper 1143 words Liberty – Equality – Democracy: America and Americans are defined by their...
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...
2 Jan, 2024
Acting like we own it
Acting like we own it by Tom H. Hastings 566 words When I was in prison for my nonviolent anti-nuclear...
24 Jul, 2023
The Widening Breach, in Israel and in Israel-US Relations
The Widening Breach, in Israel and in Israel-US Relations by Mel Gurtov 853 words The Growing Divide Israel’s Knesset, or...
10 Jul, 2023
Globalization and Liberal Democracy: Driving Jamaica’s Human Rights Reform
Globalization and Liberal Democracy: Driving Jamaica’s Human Rights Reform by Ivrol Hines 1040 words Globalization and Western democracy, particularly the...
20 Feb, 2023
Revisiting the nonviolent Iranian Revolution 44 years later
Revisiting the nonviolent Iranian Revolution 44 years later by Haley Morrow with Tom H. Hastings 646 words February 11th marked...
30 Oct, 2022
Hammers are for building, not harming
Antifa comes swarming into the street, hurling full soda cans at cops and at windows, believing they alone have the right to "burn it down," ala Pol Pot, start over, Year Zero.
15 Oct, 2022
Democracy is an act of moral imagination
Shortly before he died, Congressmember and human rights activist John Lewis wrote a farewell to his fellow citizens, declaring: “Democracy is not a state.
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...
11 Oct, 2022
Dictatorship? Raise hands
Show of hands: Who wants the US to be a dictatorship? Ah, no one? Well, almost no one. We see your hand, Mr. Trump.
27 Jul, 2022
Remember when it wasn’t normal to punch flight attendants?
“It didn’t matter if it was coming from the left or the right, you should condemn violence 100 percent of the time.” I sat upright when former Deputy Press Secretary Sara Matthews said this during the July 21 January 6th committee hearing.
11 Jul, 2022
21st century citizenship: Four civic skills we need to keep our democracy
As primaries roll out around the country, we’re tracking voter turnout. Raised on Schoolhouse Rock’s cartoon civics lessons, I know that being a good American means voting.
15 Jun, 2022
Is our democracy at risk? Actions we all can take to protect it
“The threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family…” ...