| Jan 13, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyIs 2015 over yet? Is it safe to come out now? What a bummer. Mass shootings, cops using unarmed civilians for target practice, the Middle East in rubble, terrorist attacks, Donald Trump. Trump wasn’t the worst of it, perhaps. But he certainly was the most irritating....
| | Peace / SecurityDonald Trump’s first presidential campaign ad pledges to “take their oil.” That’s what President (gasp) Trump would do after having “quickly cut the head off the Islamic State,” says the deep-voiced narrator. Along with political decapitation, there are many...
| | Peace / SecurityThe armed men occupying an isolated federal building in a remote Oregon bird sanctuary say they won’t leave until the federal government stops its “tyranny.” Yet it’s not clear what that tyranny is, exactly. One of the group’s leaders is Ammon...
| Jan 9, 2016 | Economy / BusinessFor thrilling sports action on television, it’s hard to top the sheer excitement of bowling, isn’t it? No, not that game with 10 pins. I’m talking about the passion and pageantry of college football’s bowl season. America’s elite, powerhouse...
| Jan 6, 2016 | Food / FarmingThey say that if you get up in the morning and swallow a live toad, nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. Well, we Americans have just been fed a live toad by the World Trade Organization. Last May, the WTO — an oligarchic, autocratic governing...
