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History repeats itself, especially in the short term
Another police killing of an unarmed man of color. Another grand jury deciding not to indict: Not for murder. Not for manslaughter. Not for assault. Not even for reckless endangerment. We live in a...
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Peru climate summit fuels protests
LIMA, Peru – Lima, the capital of Peru, has become a city of gustatory renown, attracting foodies from the world over to sample dishes, from its famous ceviche to favorites from the Andean highlands....
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Obama makes right move on Cuba
The failed United States policy against Cuba, which has for more than half a century stifled relations between these neighboring countries and inflicted generations of harm upon the Cuban people, may...
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There's a right way to release torture report
Mark Udall, the outgoing Democratic senator from Colorado, may be a lame duck, leaving office in less than a week. But his most important work in the Senate may still be before him. For the week he...
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Like Big Tobacco, climate change critics sow doubt
It has been just over 50 years since U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released the groundbreaking report, “Smoking and Health.” The report concluded, “Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of...
View ArticleGuantanamo Bay a dark chapter
This week marks the 13th anniversary of the arrival of the first post-9/11 prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, the most notorious prison on the planet. This grim anniversary, and the beginning of...
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Obama seeks to counter trend to wealth inequality
“Imagine if we did something different.” Those were just seven words out of close to 7,000 that President Barack Obama spoke during his State of the Union address. He was addressing both houses of...
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Could 'Selma' be the midwife at the birth of a new nation?
PARK CITY, Utah – On March 21, 1915, a motion picture was screened for the first time inside the White House. President Woodrow Wilson sat down to watch D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation.” The...
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Crisis opens up new possibilities
In ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, power derived from “demos,” the people. Well, the people of contemporary Greece have been reeling under austerity for five years, and have voted to put...
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The cold, hard facts of climate change are clear
President Barack Obama issued the third veto in his more than six years in office, rejecting S.1 (Senate Bill One), the “Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act.” This was the new congressional Republican...
View ArticleHistory repeats itself, 245 years on
March 5 marked an important, but oft-overlooked, anniversary. On a winter’s day 245 years ago, in the year 1770, an angry crowd formed in Boston, then the capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay....
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Outcome of trade deal will reverberate for generations
President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress are united. Yes, that’s right. No, not on Obamacare, or the budget, or negotiations with Iran, or equal pay for women. But on so-called free-trade...
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Report: War on terror has killed 1.3M
What price would you pay not to kill another human being? At what point would you commit the offenses allegedly perpetrated by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was charged Wednesday with desertion and...
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Many reasons to end death penalty
A jury in Boston has returned a guilty verdict on all 30 counts against the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Now the jury must deliberate on the punishment, which could be either life in...
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R.I.P., man who rewrote history
For the first time in more than half a century, the presidents of the United States and Cuba have had a formal meeting. Barack Obama met with Cuban President Raul Castro at the seventh Summit of the...
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Gyrocopter delivered sobering message to Capitol
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” reads the unofficial motto of the United States Postal Service. We now can...
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Women's peace group turns 100
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – One hundred years ago, more than 1,000 women gathered here in The Hague during World War I, demanding peace. Britain denied passports to more than 120 women, forbidding them to...
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Resolute prosecutor quells unrest
“What do you hope to accomplish with this protest?” I asked a 13-year-old girl marching in Staten Island, N.Y., last August, protesting the police killing of Eric Garner. “To live until I’m 18,” the...
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Peaceful nuke protesters expose vulnerabilities
There is a vast military complex deep in the hills of eastern Tennessee called “Y-12.” This is where all of the highly enriched uranium is produced and stored for the production of the U.S....
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WikiLeaks founder still in limbo
Tucked away on a side street in one of London’s toniest neighborhoods sits a brick, Victorian-era apartment building that houses the Ecuadorean Embassy. Julian Assange, the founder and editor of the...
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