Sitemap - 2025 - Words For the Wise

Deadly Israeli attack on Iran's Evin Prison kills 71 but mainstream media bury the lede.

Human Evolution: A new face for the Denisovans?

Musical Moment: "Closer to You" by Dennis Quaid, featuring Bonnie Raitt

Musical Moment: "Slave Driver" by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Musical Moment: The greatest version of one of Van Morrison's greatest songs.

"Those to whom evil is done."

Today is the 10th anniversary of the killing of nine members of a Charleston church.

Musical Moment: Brandee Younger Trio. You heard that right, jazz harp.

Is genocide good for the Jews?

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, "father" of the "abortion pill," dies at age 98. A profile.

Federal judges are not "judicial activists." They are the Talmudic scholars of the law--and often they are poets as well.

Is the New York Times up to the job of reporting on the Democratic Party's future?

For Memorial Day: What I did in the war.

Musical Moment: Is it sacrilegious to cover a Stevie Nicks song and do it just as well?

On courage, cowardice, and civil disobedience at New York University.

Musical Moments: Trav’lin’ Light by Sonny Rollins and Ill Wind by Lee Morgan.

What does it mean to be a "gang member?" Some researchers actually want to know.

Musical Moment: “A Weaver of Dreams,” Sonny Rollins live in Holland.

Musical Moment: “Midnight in Harlem” by the Tedeschi Trucks Band

A judge's order to release Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is a victory for us all.

What Pope Francis really stood for, in his own words. [Updated]

The Trump administration's handling of the Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia case is cowardly and dishonorable. The same can be said of those who refuse to even try to understand what it's all about.

Palm Sunday is a celebration, but also a remembrance of human hypocrisy.

The Trump administration does not want unaccompanied minor immigrant children to be represented in court. A federal judge blocks its latest brutal action with a TRO.

Jews are not natural born killers, but anti-Semites and racists think of us that way. They really love it when we kill Palestinians.

Inside the mind of a radical activist judge.

Will Paris go even greener?

Let's ask Canada to be the 51st state, the 52nd, the 53rd, and .............. the 63rd!

Release Mahmoud Khalil

"No Other Land" is a an antidote to dehumanization of Palestinians. Now if audiences could only get to see it.

Will one good thing come out of Trump's presidency--the truth about Covid origins?

Will Zambia ever get back its iconic Kabwe skull from the UK? The nation has considerable international support, but talks have been stalled for years.

The centennial of the "Taung child" discovery in South Africa is bringing a re-evaluation of the science and its history.

Why can't Gaza be "The Riviera of the Middle East" with Palestinians still there?

Music corner: Five minutes of transformative bliss with Van Morrison

Evidence continues to mount that the pesticide glyphosate is harmful to humans, animals, insects, microbes, etc.

Fuck nuance? Gaslighting in a time of genocide, let us count the ways.