Many Americans are tuning out on politics and international affairs feeling they have no real say in what the government does but there is a danger from such passivity, particularly the license given to the powers-that-be to make war and…
Category: Human Rights
The Right’s Dubious Claim to Madison
From the Archive: Central to the question of whether America’s Right is correct that the Constitution mandated a weak central government is the person of James Madison and what he and his then-fellow Federalists were doing at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, wrote…
Learning the Lessons of Peace
The Price for Criticizing Israel
The Strange Ferguson Grand Jury
There is an old saying that prosecutors can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich and statistics bear that out. But the police slaying of a young African-American man in Missouri received startlingly different treatment with the grand jury…
Der Spiegel Tones Down Anti-Putin Hysteria
The Troubling History of Thanksgiving
Though Thanksgiving can be a happy time for American families to get together, the actual history behind the holiday is a lot more complicated, as Gary G. Kohls describes.
The Politics of Thanksgiving Day
Filling the Blanks in Snowden’s ‘Citizenfour’
Why JFK Still Matters
Since John F. Kennedy’s death, there’s been little presidential rhetoric that was not either bombastic and self-serving Reagan’s “tear down this wall” or cringingly dishonest Nixon’s “I am not a crook” or Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with…