| Mar 6, 2013 | Peace / SecurityDid you know that international laws dictate the rules of the game when it comes to selling bananas and iPods, but not grenade launchers and AK-47s? It’s crazy but true. Fortunately, a solution is at hand. Negotiators at the United Nations will soon wrap up a...
| | Peace / SecurityDozens of Americans will be murdered, hundreds of others will be shot, and nearly 1,000 will be robbed or assaulted with a gun — today. The United States has some of the weakest gun laws in the world. To make us, our families, and our communities safer, we need to...
| | Environment / HealthPresident Barack Obama is on a rhetorical roll on the issue of climate change. “The 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15,” Obama pointed out to Congress and the American people in his State of the Union address. “Heat waves,...
| Feb 27, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyJust before his death this past Thanksgiving, my friend Lawrence Guyot whispered one last assignment: We must “internationalize” the struggle over the right to vote. Decades ago, our movement to end segregation and extend the full rights of citizenship to...
| | Peace / SecurityThe U.S. war in Afghanistan is beginning to wind down. As President Barack Obama promised in his State of the Union address, half of the U.S. troops there will return home by this time next year. But many details remain hazy. For instance, what will happen with the...
