Peace / Security - OtherWords

The Law of Unintended Consequences

Thanks to the shutdown, maybe border guards have a little more in common with the refugees they’re charged with turning away.

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

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

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

Maybe you’ll get four of them.

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.

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

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

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

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