The Quiet, Local Success
of the Israel Divestment Movement By Marianne Dhenin The United States has historically provided hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel. The flow of taxpayer funds to Israel’s military has only increased…
Creating Communities of Peace
What is Alternatives to Violence Project? Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a volunteer organization that offers three-day full immersion experiential workshops that enable people to lead more enriching and fulfilling peaceful lives through attitude…
Draft Notice
It’s not just our tax dollars they’re after, it’s our children. Commentary by Dennis Kucinich The coming wars are not patriotic. They are the result of the abject failure of political leadership and a long…
Israel’s American Dream
Settler white supremacy everywhere shares one dream. Commentary by Yannick Giovanni Marshall It may seem odd that US conservatism—which has taken the baton from the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and systematically spreads thinly veiled anti-Semitic…
A Love Letter to Eastern NC
Review of On the Swamp by Ryan Emanuel By Maya L. Kapoor As the planet grapples with the ever-starker consequences of climate change, a debut book by Lumbee citizen and Duke University scientist Ryan Emanuel…
Permanent Housing with Few Rules
Colorado’s approach to solving chronic homelessness By Jennifer Brown As Solid Ground Apartments opens in Lakewood Colorado, it comes with proof of concept—giving people who are homeless a place to live, no strings attached, not…
Seattle Clean Air Collective Making Shows and
Spaces COVID-Safer By Vivian McCall In the summer of 2022, a COVID-19 infection sent William White to the hospital. The drummer for the indie rock band Glass Beach, a proggy, emo-ish four-piece that has amassed…
When School Lunch Is Free
By Susan Shain Kurt Marthaller, who oversees school food programs in Butte, Montana, faces many cafeteria-related challenges: children skipping the lunch line because they fear being judged, parents fuming about surprise bills they can’t afford,…
Our China Policy is a Disaster
By Senator Rand Paul Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he tried, and failed, to sell the Biden administration’s spin that it is delivering for the American…
The Historic Lies of NATO
An interview with Sevim Dağdelen By Natalia Marques In July, the United States hosted the 75th NATO Summit in Washington, DC. Although a prominent topic on the agenda was “defense and deterrence,” much of the…