How will the changing climate affect global security, and should the two issues be linked?
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
This is going out to the end of a very long limb, but contrary to the rumblings in progressive think tanks, let's suggest that AFRICOM must be given a chance in eastern Congo.
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Have smart people already discovered the answers without the E-word, or would a sophisticated knowledge of genetic and cultural evolution lead to new answers about the causes and prevention of war?
Randall Amster | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Despite the gains reflected today in the legal and cultural shifts, we are still embroiled in military conflicts that appear long-term and intractable.
Norman Solomon | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The White House "struggles to gauge Afghan success." People in the middle of the Afghan war struggle to survive.
Michael Rugnetta | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment
In the Loop spews forth countless barrages of vulgar, sarcastic, cold, and eminently witty dialogue that only the British can raise to the level of high art.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
War has been part of the human condition throughout recorded and archeological history. Is war part of our nature?
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
Media reports of Hillary Clinton's visit to Congo have so far focused on her testy remark to a Congolese student. But what about human rights and continuing corruption in the Kabila government?
Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
The most heartening sign for peace may be the absence of an anti-war movement, in that Obama holds anti-war views, not as his crusade, but as a natural aspect of his generation's thinking.
Christina Patterson | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
War is an abomination. It's a last resort. It's a thing you do when it's the only thing to do.
John Prendergast | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
Being held at gunpoint in one of the most dangerous war zones in the world was not our plan, but we were digging into links between the illicit mining of Congo's conflict minerals and a war.
Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.01.2009 | World
U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan have increased every year since 2001. In every year since systematic civilian casualty data collection started, civilian casualties caused by pro-government have increased.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
Colonel Timothy R. Reese, a senior American military adviser in Baghdad, concluded, in what the New York Times called "an unusually blunt memo," that it is time "for the U.S. to declare victory and go home."
Mort Rosenblum | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
The operative part of newspaper is news. If changing tastes prefer something different, why not? But online-only options are not ready, and TV hardly takes up the slack.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment
What's an anti-violence parent/babysitter to do? Isn't there a kids' movie out there that's fun and adventurous while advocating non-violence?
Isha Judd | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living
Our society is always fighting, arguing, debating. We consider peace to be the ideal, but in reality, we feed off conflict, both in our personal lives and on a world scale.
Jon Chattman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment
The stars of Hair know how lucky they've been to experience a journey that started in a concert in Central Park last summer: they've scored the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket in landing this gig.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Democrats have to get over their knee-jerk reaction to being labeled "tax and spenders" by their opposition. If higher taxes for millionaires are the way to pay for healthcare reform, then let everyone know it, and know why.
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Dick Cheney may have thought we'd be welcomed as liberators, but anyone who compared the Middle East of 2003 to Europe before World War Two was off the rails.
Dean Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Today's "compassionate" drug warriors have fractured the futures and pulverized the possibilities of more than 37,000,000 US citizens.
Michael Strong | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
What if we could apply the power of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship to the problem of poverty reduction?
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
The aid group OXFAM did something no one else has done and took a survey of the civilians in eastern Congo and asked them how the campaign was affecting them.
Dean Becker | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The real kingpins are bankers, pharmaceutical house CEOs, weapons manufacturers and a thousand other corporate interests whose gross profits depend on violence, hatred, distrust and deception.
Aspen Baker | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
A just and lasting peace between pro-choice and pro-life people is possible, but it lies in the history of those who have fought over this issue, not in the tired rhetoric of "common ground."
Sam Black | Posted 09.20.2009 | World