The social impact of the Second Amendment
The state should be permitted to disarm its citizens to the extent it judges necessary to protect its own strength to protect its society.
A New Year’s development resolution
As 2016 comes to an end, so should the old modes of economic thinking that have produced so much economic hardship and fueled so much tumult.
You Can’t Trust the (Corporate) Press
From operation mockingbird to wars based on official lies, you can't trust the corporate press. Democracy will only flourish when "the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
Change, love and the need for unity
Yes, perhaps unsurprisingly it’s all about love, and the absence of it. Unity is an expression of love.
Here’s Elizabeth Warren’s plan to close the wage gap for women of color
"It’s time to build an America that recognizes the role that women of color play in their families and in the economy."
PETA responds to death of ‘Blackfish’ orca
SeaWorld still holds 22 other orcas in captivity at its three facilities in Orlando, San Antonio, and San Diego.
The Bible’s message on separating immigrant children from parents is a lot different from...
Scripture commands Christians to help the poor, to recognize the importance of the family, and to criticize unjust laws.
The public is clueless about the federal budget and it’s the New York Times’...
We should be able to get reporters to do their jobs and report budget numbers in a way that means something to their audience.
Chaco Canyon, Chaco earth
“Chacoan violence, concentrated and brutal, appears to represent government terror: the enforcement of Chaco’s rule by institutionalized force.”
The second sight of W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois would hardly fare better today. His radical critique of empire and capitalism would make him even more of a pariah in the academy and on the airwaves.