| Dec 20, 2010 | Peace / SecurityOkay, boys and girls, pull out your crayons, and let’s see if you can do a better job of coloring than the Department of Homeland Security. At long last, the obvious has dawned on our national security czars. Since March 12, 2002, back in the Bush-Cheney regime,...
| Nov 22, 2010 | Peace / SecurityI was at Guantánamo Bay prison on Halloween. In a ghoulishly fitting coincidence, that was the same day a former child solider was convicted for war crimes for the first time since the end of World War II. Eight years and one day after Omar Khadr arrived at...
| Sep 13, 2010 | Peace / SecurityUntil 9/11, most Americans didn’t believe that a terrorist attack could ever happen on U.S. soil. Yet one had occurred just a generation earlier–on September 21, 1976 on Embassy Row in Washington. One of the victims was New Jersey-born Ronni Karpen...
| May 17, 2010 | Peace / SecurityThe bubble is bursting. I’m not talking about the Greek economy, the collapse of which has bankers and finance ministers trembling from Athens to Antarctica. Nor am I talking about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which reminds us once again that our current...