| Jan 23, 2012 | Cartoon|Peace / Security
| Jan 16, 2012 | Peace / Security“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats its children,” Nelson Mandela once said. If that’s the case, the United States has much soul-searching to do. The United States is the only country in the world that...
| | Peace / SecurityCareful when You text your friend; Spooks are reading What you send. The FBI now employs 36,000 people and focuses ever more on dissenters. The CIA, supposedly prohibited from spying domestically, now stations agents in local police departments. Homeland Security may...
| Jan 9, 2012 | Peace / SecurityPresident Barack Obama ordered up yet another strategic review last year. This one explicitly aimed at bringing the nation’s military posture into line with something we can afford. In response to that review, his administration forged a plan, unveiled during...
| Jan 2, 2012 | Peace / SecurityFrom Mitt Romney’s juvenile $10,000 bet with Rick Perry to Ron Paul’s declaration that death by untreated illnesses is “what freedom is all about,” the Republican presidential candidates haven’t missed an opportunity to sound off-base and...
| Dec 26, 2011 | Peace / SecurityNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il consolidated communist rule. Czech leader Vaclav fought against corrupt communists. Yet they had some things in common, besides dying a week before Christmas. They both abandoned careers in the arts to become reluctant politicians, and...
