Peace and Security
Nurses Are Calling #TimesUp on Domestic Abuse
Few people think of nurses like me as being on the frontlines of domestic violence prevention, but we are. Among the thousands of patients I’ve treated, I’ve seen countless women who were abused. When my decades of experience and instincts as an ER nurse prompt me to...
Getting Real About School Safety
Can we get real about school safety? Since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, there have been at least 239 school shootings in the United States. 438 people were shot and injured in these shootings, and 138 people were killed. On Valentine’s...
The Stunning New Cruelty of Immigration Enforcement
We've reached a cruel new phase in the U.S. government's war on immigrants without papers. And it should disturb you no matter what your views on immigration. When undocumented immigrant families are detained, they are being increasingly split up. Not only are whole...
A ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Isn’t Enough
After the massacre of kindergarteners at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the gun lobby offered its usual blame-the-victims, good-guy-with-a-gun excuse: If only the teachers had been armed! This time, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, someone did have a...
Arm the Teachers
Mass Shootings Shouldn’t Be the Only Time We Talk About Mental Illness
After every mass shooting, we repeat all of the same things. Some call for gun control. Those against gun control say this isn't the time to talk about it. The Onion reprints its story titled, "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens,"...
Mini-Nukes?
Pay Up, Hombres
Remembering Joseph and Mary on the U.S.-Mexico Border
This weekend in San Diego and Tijuana, I gathered with hundreds at Friendship Park, which spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. We came together for the 24th annual Posada Without Borders, to remember those who lost their lives crossing the border, and to call...
A Cruel Holiday Gift for Refugee Families
Two months after experiencing the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010, my dad finally made it back home to Boston. What had started as a holiday vacation turned into weeks of sleeping outside the family home in Haiti, fearful that it...
