Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of ISIL. Shouldn’t the public know about their lin...

There is no military solution to the problem of ISIS. Military actions will not set the stage for political solutions; they will prevent t...

Often what we try to ban is the very same thing we do not understand. The story of Shariah in Indonesia's Aceh province is a telling l...

Though the militants of ISIS would undoubtedly be horrified to think so, they are the spawn of Washington. 13 years of regional war, occup...

The restructuring of local police departments into what look like occupying military forces has become a national trend.  Democratic and R...

"The Palestinian Christians, they don't live in an isolated area where oh, this is a Christian town. No, they live among the Mus...

Why does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ continue to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, and why did he use the tragic kidnapp...

Waste is not something we need to take for granted. It represents a fundamentally broken pattern of consumption. The way we use and dispos...

Tax credits, like the child tax credit (CTC) and the earned income tax credit (EITC), keep more people – including children – out of pov...

Many of the children — who largely hail from gang-ridden Honduras, the country with the world’s highest murder rate, and neighboring El Sa...

Last week's decision is the latest in a 200-year-long line of rulings giving businesses the same rights as humans. Last week's Hob...

“Few people are elevating social and economic conditions that compel people to take such dangerous risks by crossing the U.S. border or ...

Corporations can’t pray, but they do have religious rights. Hobby Lobby isn’t a person. It’s a chain of crafts stores owned by a religious...

Torture is mostly practiced as a means of dehumanizing enemies. Real life doesn't look like “24″ or “Zero Dark Thirty” – even in the ...

Human life is significant enough to allow wide latitude for. That is what necessitates the leftist part of my position. Abortions are as...

Over the past 100 years or so, polarization and inequality have often moved in tandem. Thomas Piketty's " Capital in the 21st Ce...

Walls separate. That’s their job. But unleash the PSHHH of an aerosol can of paint and maybe a wall can bring people together. So tho...

Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it's a choice we need to make again in this generation, if we w...

As productivity increased in this country, and employees provided more value, only those at the top that got the spoils. If one watches co...

Here are some actual facts about our tax system. Conservative politicians and corporate lobbyists (coincidence, right?) have constructed a...

In the past four years, under the leadership of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has made it far easier to buy a...

The strike not only may have violated international law, but also flies in the face of President Obama’s policies on targeted killings.  A...

The State Department made several flawed assumptions and decisions. When the State Department issued its environmental impact statemen...

If you were wanting something that takes on inequality in America the way Lyndon B. Johnson took on poverty in his 1964 State of the Unio...

“How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic” is a series from Grist Magazine written by Coby Beck.  It contains responses to the most common skep...

Pennsylvania became a case study for the problems with voter ID laws. Judge Bernard McGinley found that the law violated the state constit...

The really significant parts of Obama’s speech were the things he did not mention. He did not call for a full stop to the bulk collection ...

18 environmental, environmental justice, and public health advocacy organizations have written a pointed letter to President Obama. Citin...

Sustained faithfulness in advocacy must be grounded in a larger life of discipline, humility, and hope if it is to endure for the long hau...

Financialized capitalism is, thus, a deeply unequal system, prone to bubbles and crises — none greater than that of 2007-'09. Evidence...

-The Sponsors Speak Award: PBS -- The January 23 episode of PBS series Nova was a mostly upbeat report on drones and surveillance. What v...

Conservatives’ deepest convictions (however ill-founded and fundamentally flawed) determine their reaction in advance. Never mind that...