Earthquakes typically don’t have a season, but right now many across the globe are being jolted day after day. While Myanmar (and places in neighboring Thailand) experienced high-order
Today’s troubled and perhaps fevered world can do with one bold nation that is not drawn to the road of “might is right,” one that searches instead for the
Are we moving, have we already moved, to a new world order where raw power brazenly trumps values? Thus far the world has extolled, at least on paper, or in
In a world that seems to be going mad, I keep coming back to these lines by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), translated by Stephen Mitchell:
“From the place
“You dance to my tune. I dictate, you obey. I raise a slogan, you repeat. As loudly as you can.” This is the drive to compel that we increasingly witness
No Other Land winning the documentary Oscar is great good news in these unpleasant times. Tenacious Palestinians and Israelis jointly made the film, which documents the destruction by the Israeli
The very real threat to democracy in the US has brought up a wide range of emotions in me – disbelief, anxiety, anger and sadness, along with a determination to resist
The virtually overnight suspension of the US government’s multibillion dollar foreign aid program channeled through USAID has been headline news in the U.S. and in other parts of
“I wish the world wasn’t so polarized.” “I wish my country was less polarized.” These are oft-heard remarks.
Is the world’s chief problem a failure to find
Donald Trump has major skills that are useful if you want to build a harsher world, in which the strongest exact more from the weakest. Many people who have been
In the name of eradicating waste and fraud and “making America great again,” President Trump has found common cause with a highly organized 40 year project to create a “unitary
