Can the U.S. establish a ‘deconfliction’ with Russia in Syria?
The U.S. said late Monday that it would try to reestablish “deconfliction” with the Russians. A lot is riding on whether they do.
Behind the media surge against Bernie Sanders
Like it or not, the battle over the future of the Democratic Party – including what kind of presidential nominee the party should have in 2020 – is already underway.
America will regret helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen
Selling weapons to Saudi Arabia has consequences. The intense anti-U.S. sentiment in Yemen should be a wake-up call for Americans.
Talking with my friend about Trump
“We can’t let this happen!”
Beyond ‘no’ and the limits of ‘yes’: A review of Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is...
No is not enough. But yes is not enough, either. Our fate lies in the joy and grief of maybe.
We can’t fight climate change if we keep lying to ourselves
The inability to see what is in front of our eyes replicates the blindness of all past civilizations that celebrated their eternal glory at moments of precipitous decline.
Turning the moral injury of war into moral outrage for change
Our job is to turn moral injury into moral outrage and transform the United States into an exceptional humanitarian nation.
Resistance in a time of gunfire
We don’t have to reinvent ourselves along violent lines. Instead, we can become a country that changes itself through nonviolent revolution.
Frat boy fascists and real world trolls
The idea that the left, even at its extremes, surpasses the right in terms of violence is a myth propagated as much by the center as it is by the right.
Government of, by, and for Trump
When loyalty trumps integrity, we no longer have a government of laws.









