| Jul 3, 2013 | Peace / SecurityOn the web, Or on the phone, One thing’s sure: You’re not alone. In my own malcontent civic organization, Veterans For Peace, we’ve always known we were being watched. We are, after all, against war. And we’re impolite enough about it to hold...
| Jun 19, 2013 | Peace / SecurityThe watchword in Washington has been “cut” for some time. But the House of Representatives headed in the opposite direction when it adopted its version of the National Defense Authorization bill. The bill authorizes $552 billion in military spending next...
| | Peace / SecurityFinally, there’s a sign that our national passion for locking up more and more Americans could be subsiding. Our “correctional population” is gradually shrinking after decades of robust growth. We had 2.9 million people behind bars in 2011, down from...
| Jun 17, 2013 | Peace / SecurityTwo days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in front of my institute’s office around the corner from the White House. We had just been evacuated again. The police patrolling the streets didn’t have a clue what was going on. So...
| Jun 12, 2013 | Peace / SecurityCan a single example illustrate why the federal budget is so hard to get under control? A somewhat obscure nuclear processing plant on the Savannah River in South Carolina might do the trick. The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, known by the awkward acronym MOX,...
| | Peace / SecurityAs our dust-up with North Korea stumbles inexorably onward, the U.S. media is tearing its hair out over how any sovereign nation could possibly act so irrationally. Well, how about looking in the mirror? North Korea’s policies and supreme leader may seem kooky,...
