Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Charlie Hebdo Team Regrets Not Parading Caricatures of Hypocritical World Leaders at Paris Rally

Many of the world leaders in the rally would have jailed the Charlie Hebdo staff if they had been operating in those countries. So here are a few Charlie Hebdo caricatures just for the politicians in attendance, for many of whom the victims had only contempt.

Why ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ advocates cling to genocide denial

But very few members of Congress dare to acknowledge that reality, while their silence and denials scream out complicity.

Community schools can revitalize the neighborhoods around them

The transformative approach to school improvement is a catalyst for community revival.

Ending regime change—in Bolivia and the world

The triumph of democracy in Bolivia and the failure of the U.S.'s "regime change" efforts around the world.

Rules vs. reality: How competing views shape the way we use language

From grammar rules to everyday slang, debates over descriptivism and prescriptivism reveal how we balance authority with the way people really speak.

It’s not an immigrant tsunami we should fear, it’s a climate change one

It would make much more sense to take all that money that Trump wants to waste on walling off Mexico and apply it to at least pushing back the demise of America’s great coastal cities.

50 years later, a speech by King has lessons for a president

Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.