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For all children everywhere
Robert KoehlerWe can end war. Please, before you read on, let those four words float in silence for half a minute, until you actually hear them -- until they come alive with meaning as insistent as a hatching egg. War is not inevitable, no matter how cluelessly...Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Biology, Sociology, Nature Religion
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The lever of social action
Robert Koehler"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." I think Archimedes was serious. I know we need to be. Now is the time to choose our future, as the Earth Charter declares. This means thinking big: embracing...Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Robin Williams, Birth Defects, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A broken system perpetuates itself
Robert Koehler"Wheel about and turn about and do just so. Every time I turn about I jump Jim Crow." -- chorus of an 1828 minstrel song "We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it." -- Michelle Alexander, "The New Jim Crow" Yeah, it's...Tags: Crimes, Misdemeanors, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Rape and winning
Robert KoehlerMaybe the problem is that rape is an extension of military culture. And it's metastasizing, even as legislation to address it stays trapped in congressional subcommittee. Scandals and outrage come and go, but rape is ever-present. In 2011, a Pentagon...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Jackie Speier, Sex Crimes, Armed Forces, Television Industry
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Know-nothing security
Robert KoehlerLet's all work together to stop terrorism! The Palm Beach County, Fla. Sheriff's Office has a new video out urging local citizens to call them if something "doesn't look right, doesn't smell right," and just seems off. For instance, you see a tourist...Tags: CeaseFire, Islam, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief
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Indefinite enemies
Robert KoehlerYou're strapped to a metal table, unable to move. They stick a two-foot plastic tube up your nose, then down the back of your throat into your stomach. They squirt in the liquid protein. You gag, bleed, vomit. It's unbearably painful. The practice of...Tags: Barack Obama, Psychology, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Terrorism, The Boston Globe
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A floor of decency
Robert Koehler"Everywhere near the building, the stench of death was overpowering. Men in surgical masks sprayed disinfectant in the air." We move from tragedy to tragedy with hellish regularity. "The scope of injuries," Jim Yardley writes in the New York Times, "was...Tags: Human Interest, Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, Plant Openings, The Huffington Post
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Chasing infinity
Robert KoehlerIn the new security state, not even garbage will have privacy. "Terrorism," the Chicago Sun-Times informed us last week, "has created a new market in Chicago and other big cities for a company that started out making bear resistant garbage containers...Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Marathon, Consumers, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Grief without borders
Robert Koehler"She had a great sense of humor and freckles and red hair that brought her right to her Irish roots." She was "a dream daughter." I have a daughter, so maybe that's why these words cut so deep. This was a dad's description of a young woman, Krystle...Tags: Barack Obama, Islam, Religion and Belief, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Drone world
Robert KoehlerIn the not so distant future, America's skies will be full of . . . drones. What could go wrong? "Although the prospect of drones flying over U.S. cities is generating cries of spies in the skies," writes the Los Angeles Times, "groups from California...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Culture, Arts and Culture, Federal Aviation Administration, Sociology
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A future stuck in the pipeline
Robert KoehlerAre the bad ideas dead yet? You know, the ones that have been hollowing out the country's soul for the last 30 years. In Atlanta, they just indicted 35 teachers, principals and administrators, including a former superintendent, for routinely altering...Tags: Justice and Rights, Students, School Examinations, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Ending violence in a decade
Robert Koehler"The status quo in Chicago is no longer tolerable," Andy Willis said, summoning the violent headlines of the past year and the past week. This was Palm Sunday, in a church basement in a big-city neighborhood, and the time had come to stand for...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor
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