With 30% unemployment, jihad becomes more appealing by the day as Tunisia offers young people a future filled with words, not deeds.
The Retreatniks
Foreign policy hawks are aflutter about “American retreat,” yet they’re the ones stonewalling on sending U.S. representatives to global institutions.
How Climate Change and Resource Scarcity Are Upending World Politics
Natural resource scarcity poses a far broader challenge to prosperity and national security than traditional military threats.
Jim Crow in the Holy Land
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile, and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.
Women Up in Arms
From Mexico to Kurdistan, women resistance fighters have blazed a trail for new gender relations in some of the world’s most patriarchal societies.
Republicans’ Ham-Fisted Attempt to Sabotage Nuke Deal Plays Into Iran’s Hands
Iran is turning the Senate Republicans’ letter to its advantage in hammering out a nuke deal.
The 47 Republican Samurai
The Senate GOP’s letter to Iran was an act of vengeance for their discredited code of honor: neoconservatism.
Eric Schlosser of “Command and Control” Fame Honors Plowshares and Dorothy Day
Though not an activist, author Eric Schlosser may now be the face of nuclear abolition.
The U.S. Military Just Plunged Philippine Politics into Crisis
American fingerprints are all over a botched commando raid in the southern Philippines that left dozens dead and shocked the country.
From Hubris to Humiliation: the Republicans’ Letter to Iran
The Republicans’ letter to Iran defies constitutional precedent and holds international law in contempt.