Adam G. Klein: How to fight Holocaust denial in social media – with the evidence of what really happened
As social media platforms fight Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, online archives offer another possible approach: direct links to the historic truth.
Jake Johnson: ‘Is Pelosi Insane?’ Dems Rebuked Over $500 Million in Military Aid to Ukraine
“We can think of a lot better uses of $500 million than weapons to Ukraine that only intensify the conflict.”
Doug Anderson: When the Soldiers Came
They found the old monk Cheng Liu
sitting in meditation at the Temple gate
and shot him full of arrows.
Karen J. Greenberg: Guantánamo’s Forever Elusive Endgame
America’s Prison from Hell: Will We “Celebrate” Its 30th Anniversary?
Video: Paths of Glory | How Corrupt Leaders Destroy Our Humanity (& Good Ones Fight For It)
Humanity fluctuates with power, morality, and truth. There’s more than one way to be objectified.
William J. Astore: Only Cold-War Fools Hit Replay on Doomsday
It’s finally time for this country to succeed in something again—something noble, something other than the perpetuation of murderous war and the horrific production of genocidal weaponry.
Video: An Antiwar Couple Who Shaped History
“Radical Love” tells the story of Michael and Eleanora Kennedy’s lifelong dedication to radical political movements—from the Black Panthers to the Weather Underground—and to each other.
Rebecca Gordon: Keep Your LAWS Off My Planet
New technology under development by Raytheon BBN Technologies could unleash swarms of small, autonomous air and ground vehicles, working in tandem and under the control of remote operators.
Majid Naficy: On the Booksellers’ Street of Baghdad
I saw Mutanabbi returning from Persia.
He had heard the sound of Tigris, by the Kor River
Calling him back to Baghdad.
Tom Engelhardt: My Year and Welcome to It
A year of illness, death, mourning, and ever-increasing political chaos on a striking, if not unparalleled, scale threatens the American system as we’ve known it. Meanwhile, a new kind of weather threatens the world as we’ve known it.
Julia Conley: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Defender of Human Rights in South Africa and Beyond, Dies at 90
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Paul Christensen: A Christmas at Home
She didn’t know why, but she said she was very happy, as happy as she had ever been. She was like a voice in the midst of war, a calming, soothing voice from home. He heard the words, he was moved to tears at their affection. He had survived.
Frida Berrigan: A Christmas Confession
I’m Taking an Eco-Holiday From It All (and So Are My Kids)
Peter Makuck: Day on the River
It was during Christmas vacation that I first met Mr. Talbot. His son, Jean-Luc, was my good friend and classmate at a small Franciscan college in a French-Canadian enclave in … Continue reading
