Opinion
American values on ICE
By Tom H. Hastings
Oct 27, 2025
My friend Henry suddenly texted me out of the blue two weeks ago. Henry is Aztec American, born in the US, raised in Little Village, a largely Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago.
"ICE is vicious," he told me. |
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Protect Employer-Provided Prescription Benefits
By Kayla Sims
Oct 20, 2025
Lowering prescription costs is once again a hot topic among politicians. Everyone from state legislatures to the White House is pushing various plans that promise to bring some level of sanity to drug prices. |
Are you being lied to? Is Portland ‘war-ravaged’?
By Rivera Sun
Oct 19, 2025
No one likes to be deceived. Or misled. To the best of our abilities, we try to use make good decisions based on the information we receive. What if that information is wrong? |
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The story is: The emperor has no clothes
By Bob Topper
Oct 18, 2025
Intractable conflicts are wars without end, and Russia’s war with Ukraine seems to fit the bill. Now three and a half years old, the war goes on without any sign of a letup in the violence. |
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A plan for halting the Ukraine War
By Mel Gurtov
Oct 18, 2025
Intractable conflicts are wars without end, and Russia’s war with Ukraine seems to fit the bill. Now three and a half years old, the war goes on without any sign of a letup in the violence. |
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Do We Seek A Comprehensive Shalom In Our Own Lives?
By Sho Baraka, Christianity Today
Oct 17, 2025
There are two kinds of peace in this world, Christian political theorist Anna J. Cooper once said. |
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Justice, you shall pursue: Rabbi David Mivasair’s lifeline to Gaza
By George Cassidy Payne
Oct 12, 2025
On a damp morning in Hamilton, Ontario, Rabbi David Mivasair leans over a laptop in his home office, toggling between WhatsApp threads filled with names he now knows by heart — families in Gaza he has been speaking with for nearly two years. |
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Albert Einstein and the problem of war
By Lawrence S. Wittner
Oct 12, 2025
Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem of war.
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Who won the Nobel Peace Prize and who didn’t
By Chris Houston
Oct 11, 2025
On October 10, María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Machado has been a key figure in uniting the once-fractured opposition parties in Venezuela.
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The Gaza War may end, but peace remains elusive
By Mel Gurtov
Oct 10, 2025
Hamas has accepted Donald Trump’s plan for ending the Gaza war. Under the plan, Hamas, in exchange for the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 Gazans in prison, will release all remaining hostages and...
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On Attacking Pastors
By Susy Flory
Oct 8, 2025
While I’m not much of a publicly political person (and have voted both parties at different times in the past), I’ve never been a fan of President Trump—dating back to his business exploits, his love of firing people, and... |
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Preventing World War III
By Jerry Tetalman
Sep 26, 2025
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the major countries of the world have been aligning in two different blocs: NATO (which includes most European nations, the United States, and...
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Writing: Let it flow, even today
By Robert C. Kohler
Sep 16, 2025
Need some spare change? If so, this is your lucky day, because I’ll bequeath you more “change” than you know what to do with. But first, I need to set the context with some honesty. |
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American Sniper(s)
By Kary Love
Sep 13, 2025
We are 24 years since 9-11-01 started America down the road of all war, all the time, as the solution for every problem. The initial horror of 9-11 morphed into anger, which morphed into “the gloves coming off,” and the rule of law began its demise. |
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ICE Deputy Director on Jeffrey Epstein & criminals flocking together
By Kary Love
Sep 9, 2025
Back in the old days, parents taught their kids, “Birds of a feather flock together.” I thought this lesson was lost in America today, but one ICE official got it. Speaking on Fox News on July 14, 2025, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan said the agency was expanding its dragnet for arrests, because... |
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