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.
Dennis Hastert, Nancy Pelosi and America’s ‘Family Values’
While Liberals and Conservatives both "care about families and children," Liberals' humane policies do more to help families over the "selfish and self-righteous approach of the Republican right." Where's America's family values?
Private Health Care as an Act of Terrorism
The the terror of unattainable health care is plaguing the U.S. Is being sick and having nowhere to turn terrorizing far too many Americans?
When A ‘Tax Bonanza’ Is Actually A Huge Corporate Tax Break
Make these tax-dodging corporations pay the taxes they owe. They don’t deserve a huge tax break, they deserve a huge fine. Simple as that.
Harassment and assault of Jewish college students isn’t free speech, and it’s not ‘nuanced’–it’s...
Excuses made by university presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT represent criminal negligence of duty. So, why are the presidents of top Ivies offering such pitifully inadequate excuses? Perhaps it has more to do with foreign gifts to their endowments.
Descent of a throwback blowhard, swiping at energy-smart wind turbines, toilets & light bulbs
There is no subject too trivial, no norm too unobtrusive, no threshold of decorum Trump won’t trash to make hay for his “culture war” presidency.
Hillary Clinton lost the November election because she blew off Sanders activists and voters
The anger among Sanders backers by the time of the convention at the end of July was palpable.
Hurricane Matthew Is a Herald of Man-Made Climate Change
All hurricanes in the contemporary world are made worse by the climate change that has already occurred, and will be made yet worse again by more climate science denial.
Getting serious about halting Israeli genocide
The real disconnect at the root of this crisis is the one between the isolated looking-glass world of U.S. and Israeli politics and the real world that is crying out for a ceasefire and justice for Palestinians.
Hong Kong in the crosshairs of global power and ideological struggles
How this conflict of economic and political systems turns out depends on whether China can confront its contradictions.