SHARE        Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Searching For Common Ground The author considers how unfortunate it is that people get along best when unaware of each other's beliefs.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 18, 2006
Pro-Choice Democrats Have A Choice To Make The abortion issue is dragging Democrats down. Is it time for a more open-minded stance?

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 17, 2006
Moral Standing Falling Down Three years after the start of the war on Iraq, it is crucial that we consider its effects on global attitudes towards America as we debate whether this war has made us any safer.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 16, 2006
I Saw The News Today, Oh Boy Television news once informed, and provoked, and challenged the status quo. No longer.

SHARE        Monday, March 13, 2006
Darfur In Darfur, will the world once again wait until genocide is complete and lament afterward that we should have done something?

SHARE        Sunday, March 12, 2006
What Are We Afraid Of? Why do we fear the wrong things? Largely because of our crisis-driven media, which sears spectacular images into our minds, and diverts our anxieties from big risks toward smaller risks.

SHARE        Saturday, March 11, 2006
Rules Don't Apply To Me Osama bin Laden brings far less fear into my everyday life than do 'Rules Don't Apply To Me' people.

SHARE        Saturday, March 4, 2006
Progressive Values Mission Statement One man's attempt to articulate what progressives, and most Americans, stand for.

SHARE        Saturday, March 4, 2006
George's War Three years ago George Bush started a war of choice - and all for what cause?

SHARE        Friday, March 3, 2006
The Crisis of Meth Children are the forgotten victims of the worsening national epidemic of methamphetamine abuse.

SHARE        Thursday, March 2, 2006
Pledging 0.7 Percent For Child Survival It might surprise you to know that the United States ranks last amongst the wealthiest nations in foreign aid as a percentage of national income: only 0.16 percent.

SHARE        Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Behind The Curtain No Longer Six months ago today, Katrina not only flooded a city and flattened a coast. She also blew away the thick curtain our nation had drawn across our most poor.

SHARE        Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Sowing Dragon's Teeth By insisting that the United States can win a "long war" against "radical Islam", the President is sowing dragon's teeth.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 27, 2006
The Coming Pandemic? The H5N1 virus is rapidly spreading to new countries and continents. Health experts are increasingly worried.

SHARE        Sunday, February 26, 2006
Intelligently Designing Politicians Imagine using biotechnology to design better politicians.

SHARE        Sunday, February 26, 2006
Turning Kids' Minds Off Consumerism Children today are wired but disconnected.

SHARE        Sunday, February 26, 2006
Bring 'em Home This war has been a recruiting sergeant for the very forces of terror our leaders sought out to destroy.

SHARE        Saturday, February 25, 2006
Just Where Is Our National Conscience? How can America become as good as we already see ourselves?

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 24, 2006
How The Christian Left Can Get It Right A friend recently lamented that the Republicans have “stolen God”. Maybe, I said, but at least we still have Jesus. While many on the righteously religious right say they’ve “found” him, the story of the Jesus they’ve found is the one they’ve written themselves – in which a vengeful Jesus wields his cross as a sword and a shield. That’s not the Jesus I know, nor the one known by many Americans.

SHARE        Thursday, February 23, 2006
Where's The Party? Six months after Katrina, rescuers are still looking for the Democratic Party.