| Aug 20, 2014 | Peace / SecurityThe tragedies unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, are doubly infuriating.First, there is the obvious outrage of yet another unarmed black teenager being stopped by one of the town’s white police officers as he was walking to his grandmother’s home. A...
| Jun 25, 2014 | Peace / SecurityFrom 1776 forward, Americans have opposed having soldiers do police work on our soil. But in recent years, Pentagon chiefs have teamed up with police chiefs to circumvent that prohibition. How? By militarizing police departments. Through the little-known...
| Feb 5, 2014 | Peace / SecurityIn the ever-escalating competition to be the No. 1 big-time college football program in the nation, Ohio State University bulked up last fall with a monster recruit named Maxx. Actually, it’s not the coaching staff that signed this brute, but the OSU campus...
| Jan 7, 2014 | Peace / SecurityIt’s still a mystery how Santa Claus got it down the chimney, but Bastrop got a Christmas present boys can only dream about: a big honking, steel-clad, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) truck. But Bastrop isn’t a 6-year-old boy, and this truck is no...
