Author: Robert Koehler

Sylvia McGauley, a teacher in an impoverished school district outside Portland, Oregon, described her school as the “perfect prey for military recruiters…”

“A diverse coalition of civil society groups responded with disgust after the Senate Armed Services Committee voted Thursday…”

We have to salute, as a people, something other than glorified murder…

While he noted that “we do not need a massive increase in the defense budget,” I wish he had said what we do need…

The bill is named in honor of two African American vets of World War II who unintentionally found their way into the historical record because of what was done to them…

The suit, which seeks not money but a court ruling declaring the state’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry to be unconstitutional, points out: “Children are uniquely vulnerable to the consequences of the climate crisis…”

“Some day, after mastering the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of Love…”

“I am a garbage collector,” he explains. “Racist garbage. For three decades I have collected items that defame and belittle Africans and their American descendants…”

What’s needed is more than just divestment. What’s needed is a cultural — a spiritual — breakthrough in our sense of who we are, in our relationship to the planet…

So a crucial question that accompanies the Afghan women’s protests is this: How can the rest of the world support it?

What seems not to be part of the editorial board’s sense of unutterable tragedy is this…

How does Planet Earth connect with itself? How do we create a human community that isn’t separated from itself by its own borders? Is it possible?

Are we a democracy? I’d have to say both yes and no. That’s because democracy is a paradox…

Then, they marched the Indians more than 1,200 miles to Indian Territory…

The more I ponder this question — “why?” — the larger it grows. Whatever justice is, I believe it begins here…