School shootings are recurring markers of a societal sickness, an unshakeable acceptance of violence and senseless death. The murder of two 14-year-old…
The āParty of Lincoln,ā as Republicans call themselves, seems intent on undermining just about everything President Abraham Lincoln lived and died for.…
Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15āthe day after the state of Israel was formally declared. āNakbaā is Arabic…
What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass…
āWhen exactly was America great?ā is a common question often asked of Donald Trump loyalists sporting MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats.…
Haiti and Honduras have made headlines in the last few weeks. Hondurasā former president, Juan Orlando HernĆ”ndez, was just convicted in a…
The world recently lost two principled opponents of war, but under drastically different circumstances. Johan Galtung died on February 17 at the age of…
In 1948, the newly-formed United Nations marked the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as The Convention on…
President Joe Biden has embraced the term āBidenomics,ā despite its origins as attempted disparagement from pundits in the fever swamps of Fox News, The…
āThe first casualty when war comes is truth,ā U.S. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California said in 1929, debating ratification of the…
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