| May 1, 2013 | Peace / SecurityAfter 11 years of war, $664 billion spent, 2,210 Americans dead, more than 35,000 of our troops maimed and shattered, and our good reputation spent — what have we built in Afghanistan? According to a top international law enforcement official, you and I are building...
| Apr 24, 2013 | Peace / SecurityActs of terror like the ones committed at the Boston Marathon are reprehensible and lack moral or logical explanation. They rock us to our core. They also unite us in common purpose. Victims and their families seem to become our own loved ones. We want to ease their...
| | Peace / SecurityNorth Korea has a dramatic flair for stringing along the world. Whether it’s reactivating a long-dead plutonium reactor in the face of mounting sanctions or forcibly suspending one of the last major cooperative efforts with South Korea, Pyongyang seems intent on...
| | Peace / SecurityIt was a confusing week, dominated by the Boston Marathon bombing, the evil act of two young men who had been welcomed into this country and had repaid the kindness with unspeakable cruelty. Then, for grim comic relief, letters believed to contain the deadly poison...
| Apr 17, 2013 | Peace / SecurityI started running about four years ago to lose weight. At first I hated it. My lungs burned and my head hurt and every footstep felt like sledge hammers pounding on my calves. I persisted out of stubbornness. I’d bought a good pair of shoes and I didn’t...