Peace / Security - OtherWords

Can Global Sports Boycotts Help End the War in Ukraine?

The power of sports to legitimize a regime means they have the power to delegitimize one, too.

Would Putin really blow up the world to seize Ukraine?

Every war eventually ends with diplomacy. The question is how long the killing goes on before the diplomats stop it.

The crisis in Ukraine isn’t exactly the “David and Goliath” story it’s sometimes rendered as.

The media has a responsibility to tell Americans that a major party now openly endorses using violence to overturn elections.

Guard members have stepped up heroically during the pandemic. If we invested in more than just the military, maybe they wouldn’t have to.

The U.S. gives Israel’s military $3.8 billion a year. According to a new Amnesty report, that money funds apartheid.

The people who want to ban Maus or The 1619 Project are the ones who need to read them.

Russian aggression toward Ukraine is wrong, but at least in part it’s a reaction to a years-long military buildup on its borders.

Peace cannot be found if the U.S. relies on the self-righteous assertion of principles that our government refuses to apply to itself.