| Dec 5, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAs the federal government closed shop for a day of national mourning for the late President George H.W. Bush, an image came to my mind. It’s an ad by Bush’s supporters claiming presidential candidate Michael Dukakis “allows first degree murderers to have weekend...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOur death rituals for public figures are evolving. For a moment, obituaries favored the late President George H. W. Bush with the banal pleasantries usually afforded to deceased presidents. Well-wishers from both sides of the aisle hailed Bush’s patriotism, service,...
| May 23, 2018 | Peace / Security|Rights / Democracy“How do you motivate men and women to fight and die for a cause many of them don’t believe in, and whose purpose they can’t articulate?” That’s what Phil Klay, author and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, asks in an essay published this month in The Atlantic....
| Jan 13, 2016 | Peace / SecurityDonald Trump’s first presidential campaign ad pledges to “take their oil.” That’s what President (gasp) Trump would do after having “quickly cut the head off the Islamic State,” says the deep-voiced narrator. Along with political decapitation, there are many...
| Oct 17, 2011 | Peace / SecurityBack those troops Where e’er they roam; But let them suffer When they’re home. With great fanfare, President Barack Obama recently presented a Congressional Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer, a living hero. Presidents don’t often get to do that....
