"Good news is that the students want to learn. The bad news: nowadays, they tend to think that the men who flew those planes on 9/11 were from Iran.”

BY Rebecca Gordon 23 February 2018

How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump?

BY Rebecca Gordon 14 February 2017

I’m too old and too stubborn to cede my country to the forces of hatred and a nihilistic desire to blow the whole thing up just to see where the pieces come down.

BY Rebecca Gordon 21 November 2016

It's as if the possibility that we can sometimes push our country to do something right, that our side can sometimes win, seems to rattle us.

BY Rebecca Gordon 18 October 2016

Could the Senate torture report be the opening to really make U.S. torture a thing of the past?

BY Rebecca Gordon 15 December 2014