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Is Los Angeles Toxic? Jan. 16, 2025
While I've been mainlining local news to see if my house, on the edge of an evacuation zone, was goi... Read More
Deal or No Deal? Oct. 03, 2024
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive." —Sir Walter Scott (1771-1... Read More
Old Girlfriends and Donald Trump Sep. 13, 2024
The funniest, or the saddest, thing about this week's presidential debate is that it occurred the ni... Read More
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Problem of Torture Aug. 08, 2024
In the months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating them on... Read More
American Hubris Dec. 07, 2023
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." — Hosea 8:7 The debacle of th... Read More
Clueless on Gaza Oct. 13, 2023
Six weeks after 9/11, I thought I perceived a "new American thoughtfulness" in response to the attac... Read More
9/11 and the Politics of Evil Sep. 13, 2023
Three days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the worst and most murderous attack on the... Read More
Remembering 9/11 Sep. 11, 2023
Dear Readers: Twenty-two years later, our country is still healing from the horrific events of Sept.... Read More
Syria and the First Day of School Sep. 01, 2023
As sure as E. Jean Carroll was just another old lady out buying underwear, some days I feel pretty s... Read More
Torture Comes Home to Roost Aug. 24, 2023
"Maybe there is a beast. Maybe it's only us." — William Golding (1911-1993), "Lord of the Flie... Read More
Democrats Should Not Have Wanted Omar on that Committee Feb. 07, 2023
Democrats loudly complained when Republicans threw Rep. Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee... Read More
The Legacy of George W. Bush and His Torturers Feb. 02, 2023
In the days and months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestratin... Read More
Bush, Guantanamo and the Rule of Law Oct. 27, 2022
Last week, the government announced that it does not want to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of ... Read More
Killing with Near Certainty Oct. 13, 2022
Last week, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed authority to kill p... Read More
Is Our Military Prepared for Another 9/11 Attack? Sep. 20, 2022
For more than a week, many of us have been reflecting on an event even more dramatic than the demise... Read More
Forgetting 9/11 Sep. 14, 2022
On the 21st anniversary of Sept. 11, President Joe Biden repeated the same tired nostrums we have he... Read More
Remembering the Day We Will Never Forget Sep. 11, 2022
Dear Readers: Today is Sept. 11. A day that changed America forever. There were many brave men and w... Read More
Mass Shootings Are Terrorism Jul. 08, 2022
In a sense, the mass murder at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, was a symbol of h... Read More
Bush and His Torturers Mar. 31, 2022
Last week, prosecutors and defense counsel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, completed three weeks of plea ne... Read More
A Principled Politician Mar. 16, 2022
I dislike politicians. I don't trust people who are so desperately eager to run others' lives. But R... Read More
