| May 8, 2013 | Peace / SecurityCan you hear it? Conservatives are beating their war drums and banging their tambourines, trying to gin up support for U.S. intervention in Syria. Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have been particularly vocal about their...
| | Peace / SecurityWith Syria’s strife, the NRA’s annual meeting, and Kim Kardashian’s prenatal woes to report, Central America doesn’t exactly dominate U.S. headlines these days. So we understand that the octogenarian former dictator standing trial in Guatemala...
| May 1, 2013 | Peace / SecurityPresident Barack Obama’s recent announcement that he believes Syria has used a small amount of chemical weapons ignited a debate. Has the Assad regime crossed the “red line” the White House laid down? U.S. intelligence reports “varying degrees...
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| | 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...
