Op-Ed

The commercial mass media are in their element now with the Edward Snowden revelations.A highly controversial issue framed as national security vs. individual liberty, a dramatic figure to focus …

Just before the immediately iconic video of Edward Snowden in discussion with Glen Greenwald exploded all over the Internet, I took my standard poodle to an obedience training class …

The Bradley Manning trial provides a perfect example of the one-way mirror we're on the wrong side of:

Benton County is in the heart of the Willamette Valley – a lush, fertile valley in western Oregon. Here in the Willamette Valley we are blessed with a climate …

Change starts with action, and each of us has a way to contribute.

Are we capitalism junkies?

Rice defended the Bush administration's lies about the supposed ‘Iraqi threat’ in the run-up to the Iraq War.

The vast majority of our fellow citizens demand a deep change while the majority of their political ‘representatives’ are apparently dead set on pursuing the same course: the self-defeating …

Of course, old people should know these things too, and some small percentage does know them, but energy seems better invested in trying to teach them to young people …

It's important to remember that no matter what the Supreme Court decides, marriage equality is not the end. In fact, it is only the beginning.