| Jul 16, 2014 | Peace / SecurityJune was a good month for Colombia. Its streak of World Cup wins suffused the country with a euphoric patriotism. The yellow-blue-red stripes of the Colombian flag appeared on apartment buildings, the front grills of trucks, and painted on people’s cheeks. Even...
| | Peace / SecurityHow much longer will it take before the United States declares a truce in the Drug War? This latter-day prohibition is taking an immense toll. And the stakes ought to be low, given that most Americans don’t want anyone jailed for being caught with small amounts...
| Jul 2, 2014 | Peace / SecurityRepublican opportunists hoping to score political points are hammering President Barack Obama with vitriolic criticism and blaming him for the latest upheaval in Iraq. So I was pleased when, finally, two Republicans spoke out loudly to deflect those partisan attacks....
| | Peace / SecurityThanks to Iraq’s latest woes, it’s getting pretty hard to pay attention to all that unrest in the former Soviet Union. Remember those poor Ukrainians? All they want is to be independent and left alone. Or at least that’s what they claim. In truth,...
| Jun 25, 2014 | Peace / SecurityFrom 1776 forward, Americans have opposed having soldiers do police work on our soil. But in recent years, Pentagon chiefs have teamed up with police chiefs to circumvent that prohibition. How? By militarizing police departments. Through the little-known...
| Jun 18, 2014 | Peace / SecurityWhoa, that was close. The National Rifle Association nearly shot itself in the foot recently with a common-sense editorial it posted online. The group of rootin’-tootin,’ bullet-spittin,’ doctrinaire, guns-everywhere extremists finally saw something...
