ALICE SLATER – We can ill-afford another nuclear arms race.
Is the World Finally Starting to Wake Up to Climate Change?
THE CLIMATE MOBILIZATION – The publication of the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has prompted some in the media to understand what we have been saying for a long time: that we face an existential climate emergency, and only a WWII-scale climate mobilization can protect humanity and the natural world.
Making an Enemy of China Does Not Serve US Interests
MEL GURTOV – America’s China problem is no longer about “managing China’s rise.” It is about finding ways to more deeply engage China on common problems, such as climate change and energy, while also establishing rules of the road to avoid military confrontations in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.
Vote to Change Our National Character
TOM H. HASTINGS – What are we to think about our character, as Americans? How do we square some startling observables?
With the Crisis of Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Comes Opportunity
GEORGE LACKEY – We need to step up and use our strategy heads to think clearly enough to map out campaigns that win.
Timely Wisdom from the Past: Don’t Despair about the Supreme Court
HOWARD ZINN – It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.