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What Jason Kenney’s ‘mission accomplished’ moment has reaped for Alberta
September 15, 2021
How America Fractured Into Four Parts
September 15, 2021
States of Incarceration
September 9, 2021
9/11 was a test:
September 5, 2021
Empire or Humanity?
August 16, 2021
Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance
August 13, 2021
Earth’s climate outlook grim but not hopeless, faith leaders say
August 10, 2021
‘Get scared’: World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here
August 10, 2021
Cuomo investigation returns spotlight to workplace harassment
August 8, 2021
When Even the Conservative IEA Sounds an Alarm on Climate, the World Must Listen
August 8, 2021
Looking to a post-pandemic Canada: What can we learn from the U.K.?
August 3, 2021
Am I Woke? Perhaps I am Awakening
August 1, 2021
This Is Why America Needs Catholicism
August 1, 2021
Covid Is Now a Crisis for the Unvaccinated
August 1, 2021
We ARE the bowls of wrath – Lazar Puhalo
July 31, 2021
Hot planet summer
July 30, 2021
Concerning Life
July 28, 2021
Opinion: The Jan. 6 select committee is already exceeding all expectations
July 28, 2021
Beyond human endurance
July 28, 2021
Apocalypse Right Now
July 25, 2021
The Threat of an Unvaccinated South
July 24, 2021
What were the Capitol rioters thinking on Jan. 6?
July 24, 2021
Opinion: We are fiddling while the world burns, floods and chokes
July 23, 2021
The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil. Surprised?
July 21, 2021
How to worry about the Delta variant
July 20, 2021
Opinion: The thirsty West’s dreaded water crisis is here
July 20, 2021
Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI Lectures #1, #2, #3 | Quiet Prophecy Lecture Series
July 19, 2021
There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming
July 19, 2021
South Africa’s riots are a warning to the world
July 19, 2021
Republicans were happy to support vaccine when they could credit Trump, then went on the attack
July 18, 2021
Tucker Carlson’s Manufactured America
July 17, 2021
Around the World, Excessive Corporate Power Breeds Political Repression
July 17, 2021
Four Pinocchios for Ron Johnson’s campaign of vaccine misinformation
July 17, 2021
Cartoon: Thanks, anti-vaxxers!
July 16, 2021
‘I Alone Can Fix It’ book excerpt: The inside story of Trump’s defiance and inaction on Jan. 6
July 15, 2021
How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance
July 14, 2021
Screaming into silence
July 14, 2021
This entire country is haunted
July 13, 2021
“The Apocalypse Has Begun”:
July 12, 2021
An American Kingdom
July 12, 2021
Signs of a Need to Hate
July 12, 2021
How to Love an Atheist Spouse
July 11, 2021
The Ascension of Bernie Sanders
July 11, 2021
Pro-Impeachment Republicans Face Voters’ Wrath
July 10, 2021
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It
July 10, 2021
Opinion: Liberal democracies are running out of time to save the rest of the planet from covid
July 9, 2021
Opinion: Grand Old McCarthyism
July 9, 2021
Haiti’s fate is intertwined with the U.S.
July 8, 2021
Opinion: Nikole Hannah-Jones just proved the correctness of critical race theory
July 8, 2021
The war inside the Canadian Armed Forces
July 8, 2021
Welcome to crazy town: The QAnon movement explained
July 7, 2021
Opinion: Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts
July 5, 2021
It’s All Fun and War Games at the Air Show!
July 4, 2021
Are Pro-Choice Catholics Worthy of Communion?
July 2, 2021
War Criminal Donald Rumsfeld Found Dead at 88
July 1, 2021
Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation
June 30, 2021
How did a small town [Lytton BC] in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?
June 30, 2021
The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americans
June 30, 2021
Pope Francis is not a liberal! (He’s not a conservative either.)
June 29, 2021
Eyes of Compassion: Learning From Thich Nhat Hanh
June 22, 2021
House approves Juneteenth holiday, sends bill to Biden’s desk
June 16, 2021
‘Pure insanity’: Here’s perhaps the craziest election fraud conspiracy the Trump team pushed
June 15, 2021
What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
June 14, 2021
The Wisdom of Trauma
June 13, 2021
‘Green technology’ is fine, but to really save the planet we need to shop less
June 13, 2021
One priest’s message to the church: ‘Shut your mouth and just listen’
June 12, 2021
Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
June 12, 2021
John A. Macdonald can wait
June 7, 2021
How to ensure Indigenous tourism experiences support the right communities
June 6, 2021
Canada’s Solitary Confinement Deemed “Torture”:
June 2, 2021
Thoughts and Prayers for my right wing aunt and uncle
May 29, 2021
Opinion: It’s ‘The Code’ of the NHL, and it has no cure for stupid
May 29, 2021
René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment
May 27, 2021
Chris Hedges: God’s Covenant in the Promised Land
May 19, 2021
Eyes Open: An Anti-Asian Racism PSA
May 16, 2021
Why Canada’s special forces ‘shadow army’ is still fighting ISIS
May 12, 2021
Mass Psychosis May Follow Cheney’s Ouster
May 11, 2021
Return the National Parks to the Tribes
May 8, 2021
Alfred McCoy, How Washington Lost the Ultimate Drug War
May 7, 2021
Joe Biden’s War Powers:
May 7, 2021
Ron Dart Interviewed by Lauren Southern
May 6, 2021
Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed
May 1, 2021
Empire Politician:
April 29, 2021
Jamaal Bowman Explains How Progressives Will Make Biden’s Presidency Even Bolder
April 29, 2021
Opinion: The American right is becoming completely untethered from reality
April 28, 2021
Opinion: Prolonged solitary confinement is torture. It’s time for all states to ban it.
April 28, 2021
Almost Everything Biden Said About Ending the Afghanistan War Was a Lie
April 27, 2021
Out of Sight / Out of Mind
April 25, 2021
The look in Derek Chauvin’s eyes was something worse than hate
April 24, 2021
Tribes Want Medals Awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre Rescinded
April 24, 2021
Saving the salmon and Beauty:
April 22, 2021
America’s unique gun violence problem, explained in 16 maps and charts
April 21, 2021
What white Christian support for Trump reveals about systemic racism
April 21, 2021
Dear White America – “History Has its Eye on You”
April 20, 2021
Compliance Will Not Save Me
April 20, 2021
Hundreds gather to protest 13-year-old’s killing following release of body cam footage
April 20, 2021
Driving While Black is still a death sentence
April 13, 2021
How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—
April 12, 2021
Everyone Belongs to God
April 10, 2021
Dianne Tramutola-Lawson–Class of ’60
April 8, 2021
Former inmate taps into her prison experience for ‘groundbreaking’ PhD research
April 1, 2021
End Abuse Programs
March 31, 2021
Easter Song and Reflections on the Resurrection
March 31, 2021
I’ve been a priest for 50 years and still struggle with the problem of evil
March 30, 2021
Restorative Justice: Peacemaking Not Warmaking; Transformative Justice: Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform
March 26, 2021
America Must Understand How Bad Trump Truly Was in Order to See What’s Coming
March 26, 2021
The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century
March 25, 2021
Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over
March 25, 2021
The wrong kind of normal
March 24, 2021
Wall Street May Finally Be Taking Climate Change Seriously
March 24, 2021
Neoliberalism Doesn’t Care
March 20, 2021
The Kenarchy Journal
March 15, 2021
Preparing Formerly Incarcerated Returning Citizens as Part of the Crime Prevention Solution
March 11, 2021
Cornel West:
March 6, 2021
Circles of Support and Accountability
March 5, 2021
Houses of hate:
March 1, 2021
The Useful Idiot:
February 28, 2021
10 Years After His Passing, Howard Zinn Remains a Threat to the Status Quo
February 27, 2021
How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
February 27, 2021
On Misreading Victory
February 26, 2021
There Is No Christian Case for Trump
February 26, 2021
Technology of Death:
February 26, 2021
Christians as Dangerously Empathic Good Samaritans
February 22, 2021
His pastors tried to steer him away from social media rage.
February 21, 2021
Daily Wisdom
February 19, 2021
The Prognosis
February 19, 2021
Vancouver Police Have Reduced Street Checks. They Should Stop Them Altogether, Say Advocates
February 19, 2021
Pandemic Revelations
February 18, 2021
Neoliberalism –
February 18, 2021
Weather messed with Texas —
February 17, 2021
Frederick Douglass’ Hope
February 16, 2021
Not Everyone Was Surprised by the Attack on the Capitol
February 16, 2021
Legalizing All Drugs Is Just the Beginning of a Compassionate Drug Policy
February 14, 2021
This Valentine’s Day, Celebrate Love as Growth and Liberation
February 14, 2021
Earth Matters: Fossil fuels kill 8.7 million people a year; climate crisis an eco-justice issue
February 14, 2021
On Some Bad House Manager Language
February 13, 2021
The Incomparable David Cayley
February 11, 2021
Reckoning with the Toxicity of Christian Nationalism
February 10, 2021
On the Relative Vileness of George W. Bush and Donald Trump, Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene
February 10, 2021
AOC’s Stirring Call to Reject Insurrection Amnesia
February 3, 2021
Killing Nora: The Real Reason Trump Should Have Been Impeached
January 23, 2021
Donald Trump’s new reality:
January 22, 2021
After Attempted Coup, We Must Fight White Supremacy and Sow Revolutionary Love
January 10, 2021
The American Abyss
January 9, 2021
National Security Experts Warn Trump “Is Promoting Terrorism”
December 19, 2020
Jesus Was a Victim of Empire. Acknowledging This Should Transform Christianity.
December 16, 2020
The COVID-19 tsunami is coming, and it will be worse than most people can imagine
December 6, 2020
Trump Has Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes, Putting US Citizens in the Crosshairs
December 5, 2020
A New Technology That Will Dangerously Expand Government Spying on Citizens
December 2, 2020
Manmeet Singh Bhullar Left A Legacy Of Making Others Feel Like They Belong
November 23, 2020
Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?
November 23, 2020
Washington Post Publishes Names and Details of 1,400 Civilians Killed in US-Led Bombings of ISIS
November 21, 2020
RCMP Perpetuates Misogynistic, Homophobic And Racist Culture: Report
November 20, 2020
The United States Is Not a Democracy. Stop Telling Students That It Is.
November 19, 2020
Trump’s Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election?
November 15, 2020
Gustavo Gutiérrez and the preferential option for the poor
November 14, 2020
An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
November 13, 2020
The McCarrick Report: The Vatican Owns Up To Enabling Abuse
November 11, 2020
Two more reasons Kamala Harris as VP will be a historic milestone for our nation
November 8, 2020
No. I will not meet you halfway. You must change.
November 8, 2020
‘I Mostly Listen’: Offering Blueprint for Democrats, Green New Deal Champion Chloe Maxmin Unseats Powerful GOP Incumbent in Rural Maine
November 6, 2020
Plough: Daily Dig for November 6
November 5, 2020
Shayna Jones: Black & Rural Project
November 4, 2020
The Man Card
October 28, 2020
The Trial of the Chicago Seven: A Review by Martha Sonnenberg
October 28, 2020
The Priority of Peaceableness in a Disruptive Election
October 27, 2020
Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda
October 27, 2020
Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Trump’s Divine Fate
October 25, 2020
The World Order That Donald Trump Revealed
October 20, 2020
Trump’s Wild Lies Down the Election Homestretch Are Not Crazy
October 19, 2020
Seminario John Main 2020
October 19, 2020
Is abortion the only thing that matters to Jesus?
October 17, 2020
Trump loves white men. These ‘recovering Republicans’ no longer love him back.
October 16, 2020
James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion
October 10, 2020
The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else’s. By Olivia Nuzzi
October 10, 2020
The TSN anchor is a proud voice for the Black community
October 9, 2020
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
October 8, 2020
Restorative Justice: Peacemaking NOT Warmaking
October 6, 2020
Another Four Years of Trump Might Kill Off Remaining Hope Saving Planet From Climate Destruction
September 9, 2020
‘He’s Destroyed Conservatism’: The Republican Case Against Trump’s GOP
August 19, 2020
The Unraveling of America
August 16, 2020
RJWorld eConference, August 22 – 31, 2020: Robbie Robidoux & Wayne Northey
August 13, 2020
Life Under the Bomb Means a Life of Resistance
August 8, 2020
RJWorld eConference, August 22 – 31, 2020: David Milgaard & Wayne Northey
August 2, 2020
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
July 23, 2020
George Yancy: To Be Black in the US Is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day
July 19, 2020
The Price of White Evangelical Patriarchy
July 13, 2020
The Case for Reparations
July 11, 2020
A Long Talk With Anthony Fauci’s Boss About the Pandemic, Vaccines, and Faith
July 4, 2020
A Report Card on the Failed American Project of the Last Three Decades
June 22, 2020
How We Will All Solve the Climate Crisis
June 22, 2020
Doctors Are Covid’s First Historians
June 14, 2020
Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice–IRPJ: Update
June 11, 2020
An Open Letter To Joe Biden
June 11, 2020
Cornel West Says ‘Neo-Fascist Gangster’ Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as ‘Failed Social Experiment’
May 31, 2020
Black Toronto residents 20 times more likely to be shot dead by police, study says
May 30, 2020
‘Republican Voters Against Trump’ Launches to Make Biden President
May 29, 2020
Inside the Influential Evangelical Group Mobilizing to Reelect Trump
May 23, 2020
A Top Obama-Biden Aide Slams Trump for Missing the Moment for “Economic Dignity”
May 18, 2020
Mapping Militarism 2020
May 16, 2020
New Documents From the Sham Prosecution of Gen. Michael Flynn Also Reveal Broad Corruption in the Russiagate Investigations
May 16, 2020
Subverting Subversiveness: Weird Christians in the NYTimes
May 15, 2020
Voices Rock Medicine Women Physicians’ Choir
April 28, 2020
Editorial: Dolan delivers the church to Trump and the GOP
April 28, 2020
The Liar Tweets Tonight
April 24, 2020
Your money or your life? Coronavirus-era economics makes us ask grim questions about how to value each other
April 13, 2020
He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus
April 12, 2020
COVID-19: SIGN THE CALL FOR A GLOBAL CEASEFIRE
April 3, 2020
How China’s Fails, Lies and Secrecy Ignited a Pandemic Explosion
April 2, 2020
N.J. comedian’s riff on Trump’s coronavirus response goes viral
March 31, 2020
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, Coronavirus & Trump
March 31, 2020
From us, for you.
March 26, 2020
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
March 24, 2020
The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming
March 24, 2020
Inside the COVID-Denialist Internet Bubble
March 23, 2020
Beyond the Economic Chaos of Coronavirus Is a Global War Economy
March 23, 2020
New Self-paced online Courses From IRPJ – $49 USD –
March 22, 2020
Can the Coronavirus and the Stock Market Meltdown Break America’s Addiction to Fantasy?
March 22, 2020
All about COVID-19 with Physician and Writer Kevin Patterson
March 16, 2020
“A FIRE STRONG ENOUGH TO CONSUME THE HOUSE”:
March 7, 2020
How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip
March 5, 2020
The boss who put everyone on 70K
February 28, 2020
New Book! — Justice That Transforms: Volume 1
February 25, 2020
How can I reconcile the good and evil of Jean Vanier?
February 23, 2020
“Nothing” bishop gets frank on married priests, Vatican under Francis
February 20, 2020
Canada drops on corruption index
February 17, 2020
Itching for a brawl
January 8, 2020
‘No Laughing Matter’: Ilhan Omar Shares Searing Anti-War Standup Routine by George Carlin
January 6, 2020
Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden’s Permanent Record
December 30, 2019
Many Evangelicals Excuse Anything Trump Does —
December 19, 2019
Poet Mary Szybist: Whose version of Mary am I holding?
December 19, 2019
Progressives Rebel as House Hands Trump War Spending Package
December 12, 2019
New Report Confirms: Human Rights Are Integral to Climate Action
December 12, 2019
When the Facts Are Not Debatable
December 11, 2019
In ‘A Hidden Life,’ martyrdom is the cost of faith
December 11, 2019
Punishment and Prison Bibliography
December 5, 2019
In a polarized world, dialogue is a radical act
December 5, 2019
My Bonnevaux Pilgrimage Reflections 2.0
November 30, 2019
Canada’s Best Hope Of Meeting Emission Targets Is Hiking Carbon Price: Economists
November 27, 2019
“Hate is too heavy a burden to bear,” Lewis tweeted last year. “Love is the better way.” – John Lewis
November 27, 2019
America’s Arms Sales Addiction
November 19, 2019
The Exposure of the Republican Party
November 14, 2019
Uncovering Russiagate’s Origins Could Prevent Future Scandals
October 29, 2019
Scheer, Who Is Toast, Should Have Listened to Preston Manning
October 29, 2019
Saying Goodbye to Sam
October 28, 2019
Donald Trump: An American Tragedy for the U.S. and the Entire World
October 28, 2019
Of Course a US President Can Murder Somebody Without Legal Jeopardy—Ain’t That Great!
October 27, 2019
Harry Nigh started groundbreaking sex-offender support group
October 27, 2019
It’s Time For One Per Cent Families Like Mine To Pay A Super Wealth Tax
October 22, 2019
The Collusion Of Church and State
October 17, 2019
Our Mad Dog President—and His Bible-Thumping Kennel Pals
October 17, 2019
Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism
October 12, 2019
Why this ‘genius’ scholar is mapping out the world’s largest jail system
October 12, 2019
Donald Trump’s Iran Humiliation
October 9, 2019
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century
October 8, 2019
My Life Without Sugar
October 7, 2019
Introducing The Gap Year Project: Joshua Rempel
October 5, 2019
Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA
October 5, 2019
Playing the Trump Card in Ukraine
October 2, 2019
Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice
October 1, 2019
Beyond Impeachment: Remove This Regime from Below
October 1, 2019
Donald Trump Is Finished
October 1, 2019
Everything You Need to Know About Pregnancy and Drugs
September 27, 2019
Why Would a Whistle-Blower Save This Nation of Cowards?
September 23, 2019
Ronald Wright: Can We Still Dodge the Progress Trap?
September 20, 2019
Unconditional
September 18, 2019
Under Donald Trump, drone strikes far exceed Obama’s numbers
September 11, 2019