16 June 2013
On June 8, the Columbus Dispatch carried a poll that measured people’s opinions on issues concerning affirmative action, race, and LGBT questions. While the results were generally what readers here would consider positive, the affirmative...
07 June 2013
From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of June 7, 2013, all three are permanently shut.
It’s a monumental victory for grassroots activism....
It’s a monumental victory for grassroots activism....
07 June 2013
Of all the charges against Bradley Manning, the most pernicious -- and revealing -- is "aiding the enemy."
A blogger at _The New Yorker_, Amy Davidson, raised a pair of big questions that now loom over the courtroom at Fort...
A blogger at _The New Yorker_, Amy Davidson, raised a pair of big questions that now loom over the courtroom at Fort...
07 June 2013
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
I think Archimedes was serious. I know _we_ need to be. Now is the time to choose our future, as the Earth Charter declares. This...
I think Archimedes was serious. I know _we_ need to be. Now is the time to choose our future, as the Earth Charter declares. This...
06 June 2013
When President Obama and the first lady travel to Africa at the end of this month, they will receive a rapturous greeting. The president’s deep roots in Kenya, the land of his father, resonate throughout the continent. His success in the...