Articles

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Articles Something Must Change in Syria

International laws have been broken in Syria. Atrocities have been committed. And more importantly, many more will be committed if we do not act.

Sep 11, 2013
Articles Don’t Feed the Trolls

The trick to dealing with trolls is learning to recognize them when you see them so you can learn to avoid playing their game.

Aug 4, 2013
Articles Obama’s Peace Prize: The Olive Branch

I think it's far more important that the international community start recognizing America as one of the leading voices for peace than waiting for Obama to, for example, solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Apr 29, 2010
Articles The Climate Is Changing

Just take a look at Venus and Mars. We can literally point to our sister planets and say, "See that? That could happen to us!"

Jan 20, 2010
Articles Agnostic Atheism

Having personally gone through theism and agnosticism, I fully understand why people would want to call themselves agnostic atheists.

Dec 10, 2009
Articles Why I Am Atheist

I'm not an atheist because I have yet to see evidence that God exists; I'm an atheist because I understand the biological explanation for it.

Oct 30, 2009
Articles Indict Dick Cheney

The next time you hear Cheney say that America wasn't attacked after 9/11, ask an Iraq War veteran about roadside bombs.

May 28, 2009
Articles Opinions and Beliefs

Everyone has the right to their opinions and no one can have a wrong opinion, but anyone can have beliefs that are simply wrong.

Mar 4, 2009
Articles The Hypocrisy of Hope

In 2004 we forgot our about our hopes, wants, and dreams and cowered to our fears, needs, and nightmares.

Mar 4, 2008
Articles A “Cool Heads” Global Warming Discussion

Or, lets say that we are NOT the cause of global warming. Then that frees us of the burden of having to correct it, right? Wrong. Even if we're not the cause of it, it's happening anyway. So, doesn't it seem like a good idea to plan for the future?

Oct 25, 2007
Articles Global Temperatures and Human Activity

I recently got into another discussion about global warming, and the person I was talking to said they weren’t convinced that humans were the cause of it. Though it’s just…

Oct 15, 2007
Articles Everyone Wants to Be Johnny Carson

All late night talk shows (aside from the Daily Show and the Colbert Report) are lame and practically worthless. They’re formulaic, unoriginal, and pander to the widest audience possible. Half…

Aug 5, 2007
Articles When It Rains, It Deluges

Rainfall has historically been something to look forward to, but India recently has learned firsthand the lesson about having too much of a good thing. As the death toll continues…

Aug 3, 2005
Articles Tonowi Is to Buymi

It is interesting to find two political systems that are so distinctly different from one another while certain aspects of these systems are so incredibly alike. The tonowi of the…

Jul 28, 2005
Articles The Politics of Womanhood

Perhaps not surprisingly, our male-dominated world has often marginalized women when it came to positions of power. The reasons for this are almost always based in our cultural expectations of…

Jul 28, 2005