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PoliticsOctober 30, 2007
SOA Protest Draws Scant Support From Candidates
As the eighteenth annual demonstration against the Army’s School of the Americas nears, we quiz Democratic hopefuls on whether they would shut it down. Their answers are not encouraging.
Patrick Mulvaney
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CitiesMay 17, 2007
Nutter Wins in Philadelphia
A favored Democrat’s mayoral primary win divides a city between those who support his hardball anticrime tactics and minorities who see them as a blueprint for racial profiling.
Patrick Mulvaney
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Death PenaltyJanuary 7, 2007
New Jersey Could Kill the Death Penalty
The Garden State has become the center of gravity in the fight to abolish capital punishment.
Patrick Mulvaney
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US Wars and Military ActionNovember 15, 2006
Dismay Grows Over US Torture School
As peace activists converge on Fort Benning for the annual demonstration to shut down the School of the Americas, companion protests are taking place across Latin America, as revulsion grows over US policies on torture.
Patrick Mulvaney
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Foreign PolicyMarch 31, 2006
¡No Más! No More!
Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army’s School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuates human rights atrocities.
Patrick Mulvaney
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Death PenaltyFebruary 7, 2006
Georgia’s King Tribute Rings Hollow
Abolishing the death penalty was one of Coretta Scott King’s signature issues. The irony is that Georgia remains one of the leading practitioners of the death penalty.
Patrick Mulvaney
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ActivismNovember 15, 2005
SOA Protests to Focus on Torture
As demonstrators gather at Fort Benning, Georgia, this weekend for an annual protest against the School of the Americas, the spotlight will be on increasing dismay in Congress and among the American public over the Bush Administration’s policies on torture.
Patrick Mulvaney
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ActivismMay 3, 2005
No More Hiroshimas
A report from the May 1 rally for peace and nuclear disarmament.
Patrick Mulvaney
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ReligionApril 18, 2005
Progressive Catholics and the White Smoke
What a progessive pope might have looked like.
Patrick Mulvaney
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ActivismFebruary 2, 2005
Punishing the Wrong People
A federal magistrate in Georgia sentenced eleven people to prison for up to six months last week for crossing the line onto a military base in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience last fall.
Patrick Mulvaney