war

Can mere words create a toxic climate in which violence is condoned and encouraged?Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined…

New York Times San Francisco Bureau Chief Thomas Fuller spent three months reporting on the High Street homelessness encampment in Oakland. What he found…

How do we justify keeping so many nuclear weapons – and continually threatening to use them?The doctrine of mutually assured destruction is supposed to…

On this edition of Your Call, Akemi Johnson will discuss her new book Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the US Military Bases in…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti will always be associated with San Francisco, but he’s originally from the East Coast. He was born in Yonkers, on March 24th, 1919,…

Sandip Roy remembers the veterans of World War 1, the Indian veterens.

Do drones herald a more sanitized and efficient form of war, or do they represent the dystopian reign of uncaring technologies? The Unmanned Aerial…

When we have conversations about war and refuge, we sometimes forget our children are listening. So how do you talk to kids about things like the war in…

When Jamal left his home in Aleppo in 2010 for a year-long Fulbright scholarship in the United States, he assumed he was coming back. He had no idea the…

What makes us sometimes view the other as less than fully human?People tend to treat other people who differ from them, even in seemingly small and…