It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more...
It All Comes Down to Kindness
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’ –Aldous Huxley In 2025, [...]
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What Will Our Priorities Be?
GUEST POST by TOM SANTULLI I woke up Thanksgiving morning thinking of Picasso’s astounding and revolutionary masterpiece, “Guernica.” It depicts horrors in the Spanish Civil War. What would you see if he painted, “Thanksgiving 2024?” In the US: 700,000 unhoused waiting in soup kitchen lines. 37 million in poverty, many [...]
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Waking Up to the Threat of Nuclear War
“It could not have come at a better time,” Joseph Gerson, longtime peace and disarmament activist, responding to the Hibakusha as the winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for their activism directed at banning nuclear weapons. Gerson’ s comment contained the hope that the Hibakusha’s peace prize will reignite a focus on [...]
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Gaza’s Forgotten Children
I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality where the mounting deaths, grave injuries and trauma experienced by Gaza’s children are barely reported. What makes headlines are soft stories like the Olympics, a largely substance-free Presidential campaign, the Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez drama while the nightmare in Gaza continues at [...]
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