Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Lawrence of Cyberia broke my heart tonight. But as anyone who has followed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can tell you, your heart breaks far too often when you come to care for the fate of these two troubled peoples. There are all too many opportunities to get your heart broken.
Tonight, Diane wrote about a [...]

‘Equal justice for some’ (cartoon: Ann Telnaes/CWS-NYTS)

Slate features a Washington Post article noting that senators have come up with a compromise that will restore to enemy combatants the right to appeal their sentences to U.S. courts. After voting 49-42 for an amendment by Senator Lindsay Graham that would’ve denied them access to U.S. [...]