Turns out that President Obama’s threat against Syria on chemical weapons being a “red line” in the civil war there was a rare unscripted moment – one that has brought the U.S. to the brink of a rare war it doesn’t want.
Rapist Nation
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A Pentagon study estimates that 26,000 victims were sexually assaulted in the military during 2012. And the top Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual assault has been charged with attacking a woman in a parking lot.
Dead and Homeless
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Weeks after his death, Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s corpse is still homeless. Where will he end up?
Cheesy Patriotism Elsewhere
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What if people in other countries used the same cheesy patriotic and nationalist rhetoric that Americans used?
No One Starves
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Most inmates at Guantanamo Bay concentration camp are entering their third month of a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. Guards are now force-feeding them.
The Wisdom of Major Tom Friedman
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Three times Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman has a question for the Boston Marathon bombers: if you were upset with the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, why didn’t you go out and build a school?
Children of Mass Murderers Support Group
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It’s got to be tough to be the son or daughter of an infamous mass murderer. In every group, however, there’s always a star.
Background Checks at the Womb
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The Boston Marathon bombings have prompted Republican calls to delay immigration reform and tighten the border. But self-radicalized Muslims can be born here. The solution: conduct background checks at the womb.
If We Learn Geography, the Terrorists Win
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Lots of coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, but the media can’t provide the context or analysis to give it meaning or relevance other than as a random act of cruelty and tragedy.
Outsourced
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Corporations that outsourced jobs from the U.S. to Mexico to China in search of low wage employees are now off to Cambodia. Where next?
