Danny Sjursen: The End of Warfare As We Know It?
The future of forever war, American-style
Andrea Mazzarino: Who Is ‘Essential’ to Our Covid-19 World
A military spouse’s perspective on fighting this pandemic
Teacher Wisdom: K-12 Students Cannot Return to Campus This Fall
Physical distancing at schools is impossible. Now is the time to prepare robust distance learning and close the technology gap.
Fundamentalist Pandemics
A Tomgram: Juan Cole, Iran and the U.S., an irony of curious affinity.
The End of Privacy?
FROM CNN: It took the attacks of September 11, 2001 to shove aside the previous decade’s phobia of mass surveillance, and usher in an era where many of us imagined…
What Impact Has Coronavirus Had on Policing?
Reposted with permission of the Real News Network
So Long to American Exceptionalism
in Donald Trump’s America, we’re inside the community of nations in a grim new way: as fellow patients, grievers, and supplicants in search of food and shelter, along with so…
Seven Ways Trump’s Mendacity Surrendered Nation to Covid-19
Many Americans believe that Trump ignored the COVID-19 virus until too late. There has, however, been no systematic analysis of how Trump’s denials and related delay injured our country’s response.…
In the Classroom that Zoom Built
Consider the deep 'missingness' that teacher Belle Chesler has found in a public-school world that has collapsed into a Zoom heap amid the deep inequality and unfairness of a system…
Coronavirus: Scientific Realities vs. Economic Fallacies
Why do we live in a social and economic system that can only exist in a state of frantic movement forward and up, and for which it is impossible to…
Ann Jones: Getting Trumped by Covid-19
As the coronavirus runs wild in Donald Trump’s America, veteran journalist and humanitarian Ann Jones offered a vivid analysis of how two countries, Norway and the U.S., dealt with it…
New Fauci Interview: No Scientific Evidence the Virus Linked to China Lab
In an exclusive deep-dive interview with National Geographic published Monday, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases “shot down the discussion that has been raging…
Transitioning Back to Greatness
Mr. FishDwayne Booth (a.k.a., Mr. Fish) is a cartoonist and freelance writer, has been published in many reputable and prestigious magazines, journals and newspapers. In addition to Harper’s Magazine, his…