Top Ten Responses To -- "I Love Kucinich But He Can't Win"
How many times have you heard someone say: "I love Kucinich ... but I just don't think he's electable"? I often encounter staffers for other candidates out here in Los Angeles where I'm based, and...
View ArticleFor Progressives, Gore's the One in 2008
In recent days, the word used more and more frequently to describe Hillary Clinton's march to the Democratic presidential nomination has been "inevitable." She consistently leads public opinion polls...
View ArticleBackyard Democracy
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush," said Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago during the second quarter of the 20th Century, creator...
View ArticleNo Instant Runoff Voting? No Nationwide Popular Vote? Looks Like Here in...
Most of the country was captivated on Tuesday night, June 3, by the apparent nomination for the first time of someone other than a European-American man as a major party presidential candidate. Here...
View Article40 Years Later, Nuclear States Still Haven't Kept Promises
This year is full to bursting with remembrances of the many historic events that took place during the epochal year of 1968: The Tet offensive in Vietnam. The assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther...
View ArticleTaking North Korea at Their Word
Shortly after North Korea exploded its second nuclear device in three years on Monday morning, it released a statement explaining why. "The republic has conducted another underground nuclear testing...
View ArticleThe Grand Bargain of the NPT and the Rules of the Nuclear Game Today
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed in 1968 and came into force in 1970. In May 2010, both diplomats and nongovernmental leaders are gathering at the UN in New York for the 40 Year...
View ArticleThe Greatest Nuclear Danger Today Is Not Countdown to Zero's Nuclear...
Two weeks before the 65th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, followed just six days later by the end of the Second World War, Magnolia Pictures released a new film called...
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Top Ten Reasons Why Bernie Sanders Can Win
Late last year, as I was making my way by Capital Bikeshare across the Washington National Mall on an unseasonably warm December night, the phone in my jacket pocket dinged. It was a text from a...
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Reimagine and Rebuild Our Broken Democracy--in Time for the Nation's 250th...
"I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions," Thomas Jefferson wrote. "Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind....
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Remembering Harris Wofford, Who Dreamed of a 'United States of the World'
"Count no man happy until he dies," declared Sophocles 24 long centuries ago, in the immortal final line of Oedipus Rex. The sages of ancient Greece understood that the purpose, the meaning, the...
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An Army of Humanity to Fight Crimes Against Humanity
In 1945, as World War II ground its way toward a conclusion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki that portended darker days ahead, a young man named Duncan Cameron was charged by the United Kingdom with treason....
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'A Tragic Illusion': Did the Atom Bomb Make the United Nations Obsolete Three...
On this day 75 years ago the atomic age was born, with the first nuclear detonation near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Only 20 days earlier, on June 26, the United Nations had been...
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For Oppenheimer, a World Government Was the Only Way to Save Us From Ourselves
Blink and you’ll miss it. In a scene in the new Oppenheimer film set right after the successful 1949 atomic bomb test by the USSR, there is a brief exchange between the film’s two main antagonists....
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'Zero Would Be Nice': From Oppenheimer to World Annihilation
The word “infinity” is frequently misused and abused. It is too often deployed simply to mean something vast, indefinite, or large beyond conception. But the idea of the infinite is another thing...
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