Peace / Security - OtherWords

Warped Government Priorities Make Climate Disasters Worse

When we fund wars and fossil fuel subsidies instead of green jobs and disaster recovery, we punish those who can least afford it.

Most Americans oppose this horrific war, but a year in we’re still paying for it — at the expense of our own safety, security, and morality.

Politicians are attempting to redefine who counts as an “American,” with my Black immigrant family and people like us on the outside.

True populism means confronting the forces that keep everyday folks down — hardship, inequality, and war.

A lawsuit over toll booths in Honduras shows how corporate trade policies make life unlivable in poor countries — and send people fleeing north.

The U.S. sends Israel more weapons as reports of atrocities in Gaza (and now Lebanon) pile up.

Let the voter suppression Olympics begin.

Springfield, Ohio’s immigrant influx is a success story, not a scandal. But when powerful people don’t want to share prosperity, they lie.

Further proof that an issue once considered a political hot button has gone mainstream.

The recent mass shooting in Georgia is yet another tragedy in America’s long-running, toxic entanglement with guns.