I am sitting in a hotel lobby in Lisbon on the last day of a seven month trip...
The United States got caught again acting like a medieval king; you know, the guy who could make the rules but didn’t have to follow them? As the Senate finally released a report documenting our despicable adventures into torture, all sorts of apologists have lined up to either defend the use of torture or to […]
As the events in Ferguson, Missouri have unfolded since the day Michael Brown was gunned down by a police officer, we have learned a lot about the state of race relations in our country. But it’s not in Ferguson where we learned the most. I have purposely avoided watching any of the news coverage of […]