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Threats to justice everywhere 14 Jul 2013 | 05:55 pm
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. ...
Are we a moral society? 9 Jun 2013 | 02:55 am
The debate raging over civil liberties is really about a fundamental question: Can we be a moral society when we detain people indefinitely with no charges and no recourse then force feed them when th...
The torture of disabled children in American schools 18 Apr 2013 | 03:04 pm
After reading this article, New Law Targets Padded Rooms for Autistic Kids, I’m updating the post below, which I wrote last fall… If this isn’t torture, I’m not sure what is: Rose had speech and langu...
Patton Oswalt, I’m sorry you’re so wrong about Boston 17 Apr 2013 | 12:46 am
Patton Oswalt’s beautiful and heartfelt Facebook post understandably struck a chord with a nation stunned by the carnage in Boston: This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are p...
End Violence 15 Apr 2013 | 04:43 pm
Violence: “The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of re...
A Reader’s Guide to Anti-Hillary Themes 8 Apr 2013 | 09:45 pm
Over the years, the chasm between the real Hillary Clinton and the unseemly caricature portrayed during two decades of personal attacks has been all too familiar to those who know her. Distinct from l...
Tobacco kills: grim stats on smoking 15 Jan 2013 | 02:32 pm
Largest-ever tobacco study “demonstrates an urgent need for policy change in low- and middle-income countries.” … If current trends continue, it will cause up to one billion deaths in the 21st century...
The 2012 top ten list you shouldn’t be reading 20 Dec 2012 | 07:22 pm
This list simply shouldn’t exist in the 21st century: It costs just 25 cents a day to provide a child with the vitamins and nutrients to grow up healthy, but every hour of every day, 300 children die ...
The truth no one will tell about the Sandy Hook slaughter 17 Dec 2012 | 06:51 pm
As the father of a 4-year-old girl, I am heartsick and shattered over the Newtown carnage, as I know all Americans are. These unfathomable mass tragedies shake us out of ordinary reality and seem far ...
The climate change compendium: tracking our planetary calamity 14 Nov 2012 | 05:37 pm
This post is intended as a continuously updated source of news and opinion on an ever-worsening man-made calamity. Items are posted chronologically: New Yorker (11/19/12): Ever since 1988, when NASA’s...
