Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it

This is half a civil war. Some of the participants are police and some are vigilantes. They are armed and desperate for enemies

Photo by lev radin/Shutterstock.com Here’s a quietly unsettling moment from the current cries for change churning across the nation: A teenage girl…

What matters about the present moment is that change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power, as our ignorance shatters and we wake up

Waging peace is more complex than waging war, but we’ve given ourselves no choice but to take on the challenge. At long last

Reinvest in people? Are we really ready for that level of common sense?

As soon as we pull the trigger, we’ve dehumanized the enemy and gone to war. When we go to war, nobody wins

The ghosts of the past that are returning to the present moment could be the harbingers of unimaginable change

At its core, there is always an enemy, conveniently dehumanized so that his or her death is virtually always justified. Justification is so easy when you don’t imagine a victim’s 8-year-old daughter waiting for him in her birthday dress

The first institutional change would have to be in our criminal justice system and our underlying theory about the maintenance of social order. Disarm policing. Rethink justice