A Guide to Online Etiquette—and Basic Human Decency
Matthew Rozsa offers a set of rules to give us a kinder, gentler Internet. ___ My first experience with Internet flaming occurred more than a decade ago, when I was still an undergraduate at Bard...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Was A Fine Presidential Candidate
Forget the media hype, just because you lose a presidential election doesn’t make you a bad candidate. Matt Yglesias made a great point over at Vox last week after Taegan Goddard said on Twitter that,...
View ArticleCan Rand Paul Still Win?
All the signs point to Rand Paul having already lost his bid to be the Republican nominee in 2016. In the past I’ve been highly skeptical of Republican Senator Rand Paul’s chances of winning the...
View ArticleA Democratic Race Without Hillary Clinton
If Hillary Clinton doesn’t become the Democratic presidential nominee next year, who could replace her? Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that Hillary Clinton doesn’t run in the Democratic...
View ArticleThe Secret Lives of Sea Slaves: The New Threat to Modern Slavery
Are man’s instincts becoming so blurred that we’re contributing to human trafficking? Former Secretary of State John Kerry sheds light on a new threat to modern slavery. — The face of danger can look...
View ArticleThe World’s Silence on the Rohingya Genocide is Shameful—And Unsurprising
Embed from Getty Images — Four years ago, as I sat in a cozy coffee shop writing an article about the Syrian Civil War that remains depressingly relevant today, people died in Syria. They died for no...
View ArticleThe Door to Leave the Forever War
My generation thought we had a problem finding the exit ramp from Vietnam. LBJ’s White House tapes showed no daylight between his public handwringing and what he said to his closest advisors in...
View ArticleWhere There Is Guilt, There Is a Chance for Justice and Healing
By Stella Nyambura Mbau As climate envoy of the US, John Kerry recently said he is not going to be “feeling guilty” about the loss and damage caused by increasing climate chaos. The US has stymied...
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