President Trump stood before the UN General Assembly this week and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea just as a new NPR poll suggested that three-quarters of the population are unaware that he has the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. It should also come as no surprise that the public is in the dark […]
It might be that a work of art arrives too early or too late. It might not speak to the times in quite…
My clearest memory of 9/11 is running home from my six-year-old son’s school, clutching his little hand…
It’s 1986. You’re an American teenager and — WTF — you’re on the way to Moscow to ask Mikhail…
US military checkpoints in Iraq and other places where US troops are present are considered normal and…
The war against the Islamic State (ISIS) appears to be coming to an end in Iraq. Americans are again talking about winning and starting to think about what comes next. But I can’t help but wonder if this is the same “victory” President Bush famously declared on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln with […]
Nuclear testing is back in the news, and not in a good way. Between a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)…
When you think of human rights violations, what do you think of? The Rwandan genocide, Guantanamo Bay,…
Apparently, Donald Trump wants to fire a nuclear weapon at the eye of a hurricane. Which is a little…
In June, Spain’s Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s more lenient verdict in a high-profile rape…
Pittsburgh in 2018; another attack that year in Los Angeles; six months after Pittsburgh, a shooting in…
Women, especially women of color, low-income women, and LGBTQI women, are under attack by the United…
The logo is unmistakable — three overlapping orbital spheres — but where the nucleus should be stands…
The recent shooting attack in which a young white man is accused of killing 22 people in a Walmart in El…