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Penn State’s Frightening Defense

April 26, 2008 | Published by Foreign Policy In Focus

Even as a student, during perhaps the bleakest years of an otherwise dominating half-century of college football, I knew my school was just as likely to be called “Linebacker U” as Penn State. Yet, upon recently returning to my alma mater, I noticed that Beaver Stadium isn’t the only building on campus where a strong defense is revered.

Lessons from Protesting Guantánamo

Wearing orange jumpsuits with black hoods, we knelt in silence on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest the seventh year that prisoners are being held in Guantánamo Bay without habeas corpus rights and subjected to torture.

The End Of Big Politics

October 19, 2007 | Published by Huffington Post

By announcing his plan to run on both the Republican and Democratic tickets in his home state of South Carolina, Stephen Colbert has illustrated better than anyone that there is very little difference between the two parties, at least when it comes to their mainstream candidates.

Hooked On Weapons: Unfortunately It’s Us

March 28, 2007 | Published by Minuteman Media

Given our position in the world, it would be to our advantage—and by extension to the advantage of every other inhabitant of this planet—that we lead the way toward disarmament.

Jefferson’s Moral Code For Congress

March 2, 2007 | Published by CommonDreams

A little known version of the Bible, written by this nation’s third president, and handed out to new members of Congress in the early part of the 20th century, serves as a reminder of the moral obligations our elected officials should uphold.

Canada Joins US In Ignoring Warming

Canada’s story of public deception and the courtship of Big Oil may seem like a tragic downfall, but it’s no more shameful than the complete failure of the world’s most potent emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States, to take any action at all.

A Tale of Two Climate Change Stories

NASA climatologist James Hansen has been vindicated by two decades of warming and a consensus among his scientist peers, proving that there are no skeptics left, just contrarians.

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