“Every story is different. All are heart-wrenching. Everyone has a story that, if you knew it, would break your heart. They are the strongest people on the planet. Who wouldn’t want them? They chose to come and made it.”

The U.S. government, I fear, contains a terrible void where it ought to have sanity

A recent study by the Missouri attorney general’s office shows that black drivers are at least twice as likely — in some towns, much more than that — to be stopped by police as white drivers

The U.S. government protects itself, not democracy

Donald Trump and his team, led by National Insecurity Advisor John Bolton, are playing rogue right now with two countries not currently under U.S. control, Iran and Venezuela

With our trillion dollar military budget, threatening (and waging) war is pretty much the only thing we know how to do as a nation

We are at a point in the great human experiment at which we have to move, with all our science and technology, beyond the simplistic thinking of war

Some of my best friends are colored. All of them are, actually. And so I introduce you to Lowell Thompson, artist — indeed,…

From our prison complex to police shootings to voter purges aimed at people of color to Muslim bans, border cages and the brutal thuggery of ICE, racism still rules

We can’t just shrug that war is politically untouchable. Doing so — avoiding all serious discussion of militarism, both its costs and its consequences — leaves the global noose dangling