Cleaning Out the Basement of My Life
And Grappling with Nuclear Dangers at 90 Seconds to Midnight.
21 years later, Guantánamo is still open — and we are still protesting to shut it down
Witness Against Torture continues to serve as a visible reminder to a forgetful U.S. public that Guantánamo is still a crime and an affront to humanity.
What I Can Still Love About My Embattled Country (and World)
It’s time for all of us to take a deep breath and think about what we still truly care for and would defend about this land of ours, no matter…
A Christmas Confession: I’m Taking an Eco-Holiday From It All (and So Are My Kids)
From the global shipment of products to the use of plastic packaging, American consumerism is leaving a carbon footprint.
The $100 Billion U.S. Initiative to Deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas
Reportedly, the U.S. is planning to spend something like $1.7 trillion over the coming three decades on “modernizing” our nuclear arsenal, including 12 submarines that could destroy the world several…
Surviving the Pandemic In a Broken Country
While most of the developed world has been dealing with the impact of the pandemic in a reasonable fashion, it’s played out differently here in the U.S.
