The problem is not just that we’re paving the planet rather than saving lives. And it’s not just that paving one’s way out of traffic predictably generates more traffic. It’s also that we’re destroying the planet’s climate in the process
He’s wrong that no one is punished for drone murders. The protesters are.
When a candidate is never asked about a subject, most people simply imagine the candidate shares their own view. This is why it’s important to ask
On the Side of the Road tells the story of the founding of Israel in 1948 through the memories of those who killed and expelled the people of Palestine
“Here’s a plastic toy. Glad I’m not you!”
The mystery of where torture came from turns out to be no mystery at all. It came from the prison industrial complex
The similarities between mass incarceration and mass murder have been haunting me for a while
Nobody with the easy ability to do something about it cares. The people under the bombs care
A case can be made that democracy worked in this month’s U.S. midterm elections, while representative democracy failed miserably
It should go without saying that we wish the troops well. That’s one of the main reasons we don’t want them pointlessly killing and dying
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