Pew did a poll in 38 countries asking about various dangers and threats
How you make things happen in a local government depends on the local details
Wars generating environmental destruction and mass-migration, generating more wars, generating further destruction is a vicious cycle we have to break out of
What’s missing, without even looking to see…
kayaktivism to Washington, D.C., on September 16th
The future of the earth is being hoarded by a group of morally adolescent self-delusional creeps with innovative ideas about how governments should work that most people rejected centuries ago
I’d like to see skilled mediators and others of good will and good heart extend an invitation to members of the KKK to come unarmed to discuss in small groups, without cameras or audiences, what it is that divides us
Congress clearly will not self-govern. We have to impose our will. We have to understand what is needed and create it, against the concerted efforts of those in power
Laughter is a wonderful thing. It’s hard to get too much of it. But there may be something even more valuable —…
We could have a world in which a leading wealthy “democracy” has a government that responds to majority opinion
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