From day one since Sept. 11, 2001, America has waged a campaign to make other nations see the world with American eyes, feel its pain as humanity’s collective distress, and view the future through the prism of America’s quest for justice. And the effort has been successful. Today hardly anyone can voice a reservation about … Read more
Edsa II was the culmination of a movement to restore accountability and idealism in government. Its constituents were the young, the middle class, and the educated who refused to be led any further by an inept, corrupt, and archaic president. While its actions were political, it rode on the wave of a general contempt for … Read more
Who’s afraid of coups? People who invoke the law to defend privilege, those who justify power by pointing at institutions, and those who oppose all change except that which they can manage. They are afraid of coups. But those who measure their rights by the norms of substantive justice, those who affirm their power by … Read more