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

What has to happen next is that building peace becomes the norm

It’s the phrase “border security” that freezes my soul every time I hear it uttered, every time I see it in print

If it weren’t for news that normalizes and softens war, that turns it — here in the 21st century — into a spectator sport, the military industrialists and their political supplicants could not sell it to the public with such ease

Kavanaugh doesn’t belong on the nation’s highest court because what he stands for is too small, too arrogant, too buried in prejudice and the devaluation of many lives

This is the accusation the Republicans are stuck with, against their right-wing, anti-Roe.-vs.-Wade Supreme Court nominee