Obama says drift towards extremism 'not inevitable'

More than 12,000 people filled a major venue in the city to hear the former US president's take on the challenges the world ...

Barack Obama tells Glasgow audience world faces big challenges but 'we can be better'

Barack Obama has told an audience in Glasgow that hope is worth fighting for, despite modern world challenges. The 44th ...

Barack Obama tells audience in Glasgow: 'We can be better'

Barack Obama has told an audience in Glasgow that hope is worth fighting for despite the big challenges facing the modern world.
Public Books

Burglaries, Assassinations, and Mind Control: Talking the 50th Anniversary of the Church Committee Report with Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman

Despite what the law says, the government still spies on people because of their political beliefs. What is new is the scale ...
The Trace

What It Takes to Have a Friday Night Without Violence

On a Friday evening in mid-July, Martin Luther King Jr. Park in South Memphis was teeming with people. There were carnival ...

Is There Hope for Human Society? Reflections Through Three AIs and Adlerian Psychology

Things I've started thinking about after turning 70Why are humans capable of being so cruel?People wish for the happiness of ...
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionOpinion

Keisha Lance Bottoms didn’t let Atlanta ‘burn.’ Don’t tell her critics.

Critics of former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms say she let the city burn. That narrative is overblown but effective ...

Gandhi and the grammar of moral protest

Why India’s rulers and protesters alike need to rediscover the moral discipline of satyagraha.What does the barricading of ...
Opinion

‘Night of the Living Dead’ helped me process the Tree of Life massacre and other real-world horrors

Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue was the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. Tree of Life is less than 2 miles from my home, and the Jewish congregation that I belong to ...