Peace / Security - OtherWords

Extraplanetary Extravagance

by Jim Hightower

Maintaining our bloated machine on earth costs over $700 billion a year. Trump wants to blast those costs into space.

by Peter Certo

The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So why not do the right thing?

by Khalil Bendib

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

by Khalil Bendib

Maybe you’ll get four of them.

by Lindsay Koshgarian

Military leaders literally don’t know what they’re doing with our money, but they want more. People on the left and right have had enough.

by Peter Certo

The outgoing House speaker’s entire career was a cash grab for billionaires, capped off by a low trick to literally starve children.

by Kerri Kennedy

Mary and Joseph fled their country to keep their child alive. We should embrace families making the same difficult choice today.

by Domenica Ghanem

Some may mourn Bush’s more “respectable” presidency. But looking back, one sees the very same race-baiting and cruelty.

by Peter Certo

New debates, especially on overlooked subjects, bring new vibrancy to our civic life. In death, even flawed politicians can do us that final service.

by Jasmine Aguilera

In Tijuana, some Mexicans have embraced the Trump line on Central American migrants. But others have welcomed them with open arms.