| Aug 23, 2010 | Peace / SecurityThe war in Iraq is over. Or so the government and most media outlets will claim on September 1, by which time thousands of U.S. troops will have departed the land of two rivers for other assignments. With this phase of the drawdown, says President Barack Obama,...
| | Rights / DemocracyFive years after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the botched recovery effort that followed, Congress has yet to ensure that survivors of future disasters on the Gulf Coast or elsewhere won’t face the nightmare that still prevents tens of...
| | Rights / DemocracyWe would do well to remember why America as a nation exists at all: The early colonists from Europe fled the tyranny of monarchs who could tell them whom, how, whether, when, and where they could worship. We shouldn’t have to be reminded that religious freedom...
| Aug 16, 2010 | Environment / HealthThe economy is in the tank, and, unless we do something about it, it’s about to get worse. It turns out the mortgage meltdown we’ve been suffering through is only the first wave. Wave No. 2 may be more like a tsunami: Between now and 2014, $1.4 trillion in...
| | Rights / DemocracyImagine that you’ve been raped. There’s only one police officer on duty, and even if he has time to investigate, federal law prevents him from charging the suspect in court. At the hospital, the nurses aren’t trained to use a forensic rape kit to...
