January 2022

Our Restricted Liberties: Anne Frank, RFK Jr, and Everyday Ignorance

Unions Must Help Salvage Democracy

Russian Actions Against Ukraine Violate International Law

Four Good Reasons Not to Go to War Over Ukraine

Logging Won’t Do Much to Reduce Large Wildfires

How 5G Puts Airplanes at Risk

Chile: New Leader, Fresh Optimism, Old Obstacles

Morality Cannot Be Divided: How Netanyahu’s Corruption has Exposed Israel’s ‘Democracy’

Jim Crow Wails in Anguish

Peace with Horror: How a Psychotic Empire Loses a War

Miranda Writes: Encanto’s Chart-Topping Enchantments

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act is a Bad Idea in Almost Every Way

The Black Left Tradition: Its Enduring Lessons and Insights

Off to the Supreme Court: Assange’s Appeal Continues

Bikeshares: From Provocation to Commodity

US Money Pays for Converting Bad News for Cubans into Good News Elsewhere

The Pentagon We Don’t Think About

The US Needs to Start “Winning” Again

How the 13th Amendment’s Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Convict Slavery

The State of the World (and a Few Predictions)

It’s Time to Expand the COVID-19 Exception to All American Health Care

You Don’t Have to Read ‘Em, But You Can’t Ban ‘Em

A Tale of Two Presidents

“For the Children”: The Last Refuge of Anti-Encryption Scoundrels

To Send Weapons and Troops to Ukraine You’d Have to Be a Stupid Son of a Biden

Cover-up: Brazilian Government Plot to Open Up Uncontacted Tribe’s Territory Revealed

Ukraine as Game Board

Virginia’s Republican Governor Youngkin: Trump in Sheepskins

A Theory About Conspiracy Theories

A Very Long War

Britain’s Forces Eye Australia

U.S/Russian Negotiations and Getting to Yes

Covidian Musings

Truckloads of Guns 

Republicans Tripped Up by Their Anti-Citizens Initiative Law

An Appreciation of a Modern-Day Troubadour 

The Tonga Volcanic Eruption was So Intense It Caused the Atmosphere to Ring Like a Bell

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Suppress the Vote, Cut Rich People’s Taxes

How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online

Talkin’ World War III Blues…Again

A Hegelian Case for Vaccine Mandates

Tantura Massacre: Why Israel’s Founding War is in the News Again

Isn’t It Obvious? Observations on the Ukraine “Crisis”

Seeking Justice for Syrians…in Germany

Liberty Includes the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs

Why 30 Out of 32 NFL Head Coaches are White: Pro Football’s Abysmal Record on diversity

Care Workers Aren’t Giving Up on Build Back Better

Washington Post Says Life Was Bleak for Workers on Eve of Pandemic

Nuclear Waste Risks Can be “Minimized” and Other Myths