Nobel Prize has a gender imbalance
Colman McCarthyCommentaryAnyone lucky enough to be teaching peace studies courses soon notices that more females are in the classes than males. Many, many more. Noticeable also is that women tend to...
View ArticleCakewalks and slam dunks: realities of the Iraq War
Colman McCarthyCOLUMNFrom the beginning to the end -- March 2003 to December 2011 -- the Iraq War was a lose-lose tragedy: losses for the people of Iraq that range from a mass exodus of refugees to a...
View ArticleLow comedy and high cons in GOP race
Colman McCarthyCOLUMNIf ever the country needed bed rest and a chance to dose up on Prozac or the antidepressant of your choice, it’s now. Through some 20 televised debates and hundreds of interviews,...
View ArticleInfiltrators expose the cruelty of meat
Colman McCarthyCOLUMNIowa companies that breed, feed, cage and kill animals for people who savor the taste of the creatures’ flesh are having anxiety attacks. In March, they persuaded the state...
View ArticleAnn Romney's choice to stay home is one many lack
Colman McCarthyCOLUMNIf Mark Twain was right, that work is what you do when you would rather be doing something else, then Hilary Rosen's jibe that Ann Romney "never worked a day in her life" was...
View ArticleTypecasting bishops as 'right-wing' is futile
Colman McCarthyCOLUMNLet's all get mad at the bishops. They're getting out of hand, aren't they?Starting at the top, we had Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, hashing it out with...
View ArticleDrone attacks are a stain on the nation
Colman McCarthyOPINIONAs president, Richard Nixon, a man with well-honed grudge-bearing skills, had an enemies list. Barack Obama has one, too. Unlike Nixon, who mostly brooded about people he saw as...
View ArticleStop the torture: End forced algebra
Colman McCarthyIt has taken me decades to reveal this publicly, but as a lad of 14 at St. Dominic High School, Oyster Bay, N.Y., I was a victim of child abuse. The merciless torture, which heaved me...
View ArticleAnniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth the chance to celebrate folksinger's ideals
Colman McCarthyViewpointColumn: Woody Guthrie, who would have turned 100 this month, always sang to agitate and illuminate, not to entertain.
View ArticleThe American voter is a gullible idealist
Colman McCarthyColumn: The mystery is why so many citizens allow themselves to be sucked into the political miasma and be complicit. How? By voting.
View ArticleMcGovern was a politician who never lost his soul
Colman McCarthyColumn: At his death in October, George McGovern remained in full possession of the soul-force that marked a political career that began in 1956 and ended in 1980.
View ArticleNRA's school scenario is a delusional fantasy
Colman McCarthyAt Wilson High School in Washington, where I've been teaching peace studies classes for 28 years, armed police patrol the halls. They carry Glocks, a high-powered handgun not to be...
View ArticleMilitary memoirs cash in on tragedies of US wars
Colman McCarthyCommentaryOne after another they surface: bemedaled generals coming out of well-pensioned retirements to salute themselves for their military careers of duty-honor-country-valor. They...
View ArticleA debt to Eugene Patterson, titan of American journalism
Colman McCarthyCommentaryColumn: Eugene Patterson was a standout in a time when newsroom bravery meant risking your and your family's life.
View ArticlePope Francis' election could mean it's time to return to the church
Colman McCarthyColumnPope FrancisColumn: Those who left the church because of child abuse, the scrutiny of American nuns or other reasons are watching this new pope carefully.
View ArticleObama is just another Republican
Colman McCarthyColumnColumn: Obama's heart may be on the left but his mind is barnacled on the right on several issues.
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When conscience and a passion for peace lead to jail time
Colman McCarthyDOING TIME FOR PEACE: RESISTANCE, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY By Rosalie G. Riegle Published by Vanderbilt University Press, $29.95In March 2004 Rosalie Riegle, a professor of English at...
View ArticleFamous marathoners' lives were run in frictionless motion
Colman McCarthyColumnColumn: A look at two men who are an inspiration to runners the world over in light of the Boston Marathon bombings.
View ArticleSexual assault a sign of military dysfunction
Colman McCarthyColumnColumn: It was Groucho Marx who had it right: "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
View ArticleWhistleblowers shine necessary light on US shadows
Colman McCarthyColumn: The civil disobedience of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden show them to be men of conscience and courage.
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