War

Western media continues to lend legitimacy to the extremists who have rampaged through Syria for 6 years.

War on terror, war on education

It remains to be seen whether military service will ultimately narrow or broaden social gaps.

Overall, military spending accounts for about half of the federal government’s total discretionary spending -- while programs for helping instead of killing are on short rations for local, state and national government agencies.

Ted Cruz may be able to build up his poll numbers by promising to carpet bomb foreigners in the Middle East of whom we are fearful, but at least we know that biology doesn’t have to dictate our response. Our brains don’t have to stay in the Stone Age.

It was just a coincidence that one of the tranches of the repayment to Iran of Iran’s own money coincided with the release of hostages.

Colin Powell’s failure to act with integrity on that occasion is what led to the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Sorry, his legacy is shattered by that historic crime.

for the moment, it seems, humanity still has the chance to write its own history in a fashion that would allow for a perhaps less welcoming but still reasonably palatable world for our children and grandchildren to live in. And be glad of that.

No, that’s not a typo.

“Who rules the world?” we might also want to pose another question: “What principles and values rule the world?”