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Conference on Activist H. Thurman Held on ‘9/11’ Anniversary
David N. Cicilline and Michael Shank: Global warming threatens R.I.
Egyptian-American activist Aya Hegazi returns to US following Egypt court acquittal
Missing the mark on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at MLK Avenue
Why D.C. should take Youth Court program off life support
Iran's Election Win Warrants U.S. Sanctions Rethink
Semites Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose But your Conflict
Congress Better Listen to the Pope on Climate Change
The Struggle for Independence in West Papua
Next Up in Somalia’s Fragile Transition: Bridge Political Divides
Letter to the Editor: Dismissal of Evidence Affected Paris Agreement
Woodbridge Resident Gains White House Internship
Women in Combat
NYC Housing: A Clear and Present Danger
Beyer Statement On Acquittal of Aya Hijazi and Her Co-Defendants in Egypt
Obama making up drone rules as he goes
Why Congress Should Care About the Beepocalypse | Commentary
Did Bernie Sanders just steal Joe Lieberman’s Jewish crown?
Why defeating ISIS with military might is starry eyed idealism
Donald Trump and the Politics of Personality: To Understand Trumpism, Look Abroad!
Let's keep Syria's blood off America's hands
Police Militarization Must Be Halted
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry denounces US calls for Aya Hegazy’s release
When soldiers commit murder
‘Strength through peace – not peace through strength’: a reaction to Trump’s America First foreign policy
How to stop the stone-throwing in Anacostia
'Less Violent' Does Not Have to Mean 'Apathetic'
Working for world peace here at home
What will Rep. Dennis Kucinich's legacy be?
Vatican Mayors Summit Spots Pope on Municipal Pulpit
Collaboration with China is preferable to containment
Fossil Fuel Divestment Makes UN Climate Summit a Success
Hillary Clinton Asks Egypt’s President Sisi to Release Aya Hijazi
A Strike Against Israel
Past a certain point conflict becomes unstoppable
How to Fix Turkey's Fall From International Favor
Jobs: A Human Right | Commentary
Bernie Sanders Vows To Fight Anti-Islam Sentiment: 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidate Hugs Muslim Woman On Stage
Inevitable US policy shift on Burma: why and how
Rand Paul Got It Right on ISIS
Immigration debate: How DC can move the conversation forward
Gaza becomes Syria: Middle East geopolitics 2.0
Honoring National Service in War and Peace
Youth from all areas of Philadelphia kick off Peace Olympics with March
Israelis and Palestinians -- rage, fear and misunderstanding
Mary Wade to Hold Trayvon Book Launch in MT Airy
George Mason to cultivate global leaders
Feckless on Foreign Policy
We Must Revive the American Dream by Alleviating Poverty
Shank and Powell: Climate Change Fight Includes Private Sector
Britain’s election results may prove to be a blow to US foreign policy goals
Reading Dr Ambedkar as a narrative for social change
Anacostia totem pole belies Washington’s devotion to Redskins
Rethinking transitions: finding the pathway from military to community security
UVA Gives Diversity Awards to Longtime Professors McDowell and Dukes
Yemen needs action, not just talk
Final Frontier on Carbon Emissions: Food
If America wants Assad to respect international law, it must respect it, too
We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal
Pro-Earth Republicans In The Era Of President Trump
Paul Ryan's Radical Economic Regime: Why His House Budget Legacy Is a Lesson in Elitism
A new look at climate change
The Business Argument for Addressing Climate Change
Trump 'ordered Sisi' to release US-Egyptian charity worker
Marijuana cartels and the Mafia
Civility: The Way We Drive
How Egypt’s most famous jailed couple celebrated Valentine’s Day
Peace is profitable: time for the US to invest
Mason Student Studies Emerging Protest Culture Over Land Rights Conflicts in Cambodia
Our moral obligations in Somalia
9/11 Forever (and Ever)
Dismissal of Evidence Affected Paris Agreement
Violence and violence-containment's $460 billion price tag
UN climate change negotiations in Poland this week
Advocates for Egypt’s street children face unjust imprisonment
‘Lincoln’: Where was Frederick Douglass?
How to save the American Dream
The NYC Security Risk That Candidates Aren't Discussing
62nd Anniversary of the Crimean Tatar Deportation “Protest Meeting” in Simferopol, Crimea Went By Peacefully
Insight Policing and the Role of the Civilian in Police Accountability
Congress Should Scrutinize Pending Trade Pacts
Yemen is on the Brink of Chaos - And Why It's So Important
U.S. Couple Held In Egyptian Prison For 1 Year Over Unfounded Child Abuse
Germany's lesson for U.S. -- keep faith with workers
Militarization of U.S. Police Forces
Student Studies Connection of Abusive Treatment of Humans and Animals
Why We Heart Hurricanes: The Climate Change Connection
Is America turning into a failed state?
Mason experts explain how ISIS attacks are recruitment tools
Mason Professors, Graduates Take Active Role in Latin American Conflicts
USDA Does Diets Differently, Moves Off Meat
Hottest Year on Record, 2014, Brings Economic Opportunity
Why Congress Needs to Act Now On Super-Pollutants
Police should put away the military gear and build connections with young people
Candidates should address cost  of violence in primary states
A third intifada is inevitable unless Israel changes course
Americans have had enough conflict
Inspiring Curious Feminists: Reflections on Cynthia Enloe
Bucolic Peekskill under attack: View
Bernie Sanders vows to fight Islamophobia and 'ugly stain of racism' in the US
Community Activists Question Timing Of Grand Jury Announcement
Evolving policy in a changing world: Examining challenges and opportunities in the new US Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
Nonviolent resistance key to Middle East breakthrough
U.S. Military Interventionism Has Harmed Iraq Dearly
Ending the Exploitation of People and the Planet
Spread of US poverty risks serious social disorder
The Russian Military Intervention in Syria; Is This Really a Concern for the U.S.?
Options for Action in Syria
Fighting extremism: Dignity is the answer
Egypt’s Street Children, Aya Hijazi, and Me
Political Discourse: A Family Affair
U.S. Credibility Around the World Damaged by Afghanistan War
A New Model for American Foreign Policy
Blessed Are the Climate Advocates
Who is Aya Hijazi, the American freed from jail in Egypt?
Female soldiers fight Pentagon in court for combat positions
Embracing Healthier Communities Through Clean Energy
Iran's Election Win Warrants U.S. Sanctions Rethink
Peace – practical, not fanciful
What Pope Francis Will Say to America This Week
Free West Papua: Growing International Solidarity for a Forgotten Independence Movement
How Germans Go Green
Cardin Meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister
We must make anti-bullying a mainstream message
Women in combat: US military on verge of making it official
Saudi in Yemen; It’s personal now
After Nearly Three Years, An American In Egypt Walks Free
Tackling the most grave and serious global security threats
U.S.-E.U. Rhetoric on Russia as Destructive as a Chekhovian Duel
Couple Spend Their Wedding Money on Street Children, End up in an Egyptian Prison
Egypt frees U.S. charity worker Aya Hijazi from prison
Mason/EMU alum Michael Shank works with media to tell the story of climate change
Advertising against Muslims? Not with my tax dollars
Go After Super Pollutants
How Did VP Candidates Do in the Debate? Our Latino Panel Weighs In
Bringing Florida to Justice, Not Just George Zimmerman
Why NFL's Washington Redskins needs renaming
The inclusion of women in the peacemaking process
The District’s Divide: Classism, Racism and the Re-Election of Marion Barry
Here's Why The U.S. Needs To Upgrade Economic Indicators
The Noxious Origins of NYC Gentrification: Cooking Gas
Ghailani Trial and Sentence Affirms US Federal Court System
The World Does Not Need a Jewish Ann Coulter: An Open Letter To Ben Shapiro.
Obama Thinks Too Small on Climate Change
UN Summit Already Successful: $50 Billion Divested From Fossil Fuels
US Lawmaker Urges Egypt to Release Dual Citizen
The 'anti-science' side of the political divide
Why the Kerry-Karzai Afghan Security Deal Won't Work
UC Berkeley holds 6th annual TED conference, explores themes of wisdom, compassion
Saving District of Columbia’s Youth Court
Why Bernie Sanders is standing with Muslims
Lone wolf senator builds case to engage Myanmar
Climate change denial — the dangerous lie
Congress Must Tax Fossil Fuels
Africa Needs More from Obama than Promises
Trump Should Take a Lesson From the Pope on How to Lead
Eight ingredients for a peaceful society
Elizabeth Degi Mount - DBFA
Syria Conflict Panel
The Current of Discord on the Mekong
Athletes Pick A Side At The Women's March
Sit down with Iran to ensure there is no ‘October surprise’
Behind the Headlines: Israeli Arab's Water Project May Aid Regional Cooperation
Post-Election Ferguson: Bipartisan Congress to Demilitarize Police
Keeping USAID: why the US shouldn’t cut off its nose
Why is the US so reticent to read the right messages in Asia and the Pacific?
Beyond the limits of counterterrorism: towards a peace and development agenda that can engage constructively with extremism
Crashing in America
Indignados de Wall Street, ¿el Tea Party de la izquierda?
Rep. Charles Rangel: Let's slow down the next superstorm
Charlie Rangel: Why I Oppose Syria Strikes
A Fixable Problem for Our Society
Expect Resource Wars With Exxon CEO At State Helm
Only catastrophes lead to the sharing of sovereignty
Fallacy of a moderate mullah
Turkey's Best Asset to Tackle ISIS: Ankara or America?
American Aid Worker, Release Secured by Trump Officials, Leaves Egypt
Preventing gang violence in San Diego
Transforming a Nation
Mason students discuss Islamophobia
Aziz Abu Sarah Named National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Why World Leaders Are Starting to Eat Garbage
Somalia on the Brink
More record warmth means more flooding: Column
How to Have a Productive Conversation About Politics at Thanksgiving
Gilbert gunman's rampage sheds light on extremism: Immigration issue is a beacon to neo-Nazis
Suffolk reservist sues over ban on women in combat
Cyclone Pam Is Just the Start
Richard Solomon Proved Sport Matters through the ‘Ping-Pong’ Diplomacy, and George Mason University is Poised to Tell Us How
Congress Can't Ignore Afghanistan in Budget Talks
Mason’s Global Problem Solving Consortium in National Spotlight
What the Flint Crisis Reveals About Inequality in the U.S.
Egypt: Revolution or bust
Police Should Put Away the Military Gear and Build Connections with Young People
Armenian, Azeri experts' Karabakh settlement recommendations
Why Hong Kong's #OccupyCentral Used Nonviolent Action as Tactic
The Path To Clean Energy Requires An Energy-Storage Revolution
The Indoctrination Myth
Food insecurity rising as crop production falls
'Free Speech' on the DC Metro
Obama’s local, international obstacles on Syria
Mason student starts ‘sustainable, reproducible’ businesses in war zones
One Week After Colorado Shooting, US Government Still Failing to Safeguard America
Fulbright Scholars Offer Tips to Win the Prize
Politics and the city – the battle over Istanbul’s Gezi park
Stop the ISIS War Before It Gets Worse!
Addressing divide between communities and police
New Virginia gun law will boost violence, costs
Ryan Gosling spreads message from Bernie Sanders
Five Steps America Must Take Now to Combat Climate Change
Land Rights Have Become A Women's Issue Through Social Mobilization In Cambodia
Why Washington is wrong to impose visa suspension on Iraqis
The Dangers of Soft Power: Government backed cultural programs often come across as just propaganda
Inclusiveness: The Right (and Political) Way to Be
How the U.S. Deals With a Land Known for Corruption
A Westside Story: Through the Eyes of a Sandtown Child!
Awakening the Demons: There is no Arab Spring coming to Iraq. But sectarian protests could tear this fragile country apart.
The U.S. Is No. 1 In Global Arms Sales
To save his Middle East legacy, Obama must recognise a Palestinian state now
The Israeli ex-settler at the center of Occupy Wall Street
Climate Action Is Solution to Slowing Superstorms | Commentary
Look to Iran for a solution in Syria
Conflict as an opportunity
Global Mayors Protest Trump’s Anti-Climate Cabinet
Democratic Party looks like America
Cost of inaction will be great
Unclenched Fists
A surprise from Trump’s first 100 days: His first international rescue was a Muslim woman
An Ill-Advised Purge in Libya
Dear Congress: Take Your Power Back
Indian Point: Past Its Expiration Date
Republican Reasoning: Why 2008 Was the Year for Occupying and Protesting Wall Street
Why US and Chinese cities will make or break any global climate deal
She Didn't Have a Gun... She Had MLK's Dream
Climate Change Is An Immediate Threat
An American humanitarian worker goes on trial in Cairo. What’s next for Aya Hijazi?
In Oak Creek, Wis., hearts open to Sikhs after temple shooting
Women sue Pentagon over combat exclusion
Freeport's Highland Community College board will seat Shockey and Musser
Former Del. Jim Scott remembered for selfless public service
In fighting gangs, US should look to El Salvador
Do We Need Dictatorship?
Aya Hegazy trial postponed for 5th time after court unable to turn on laptop
Obama's Middle East Speech: The Message Was Not Received
Meat Alert
A New Approach to Dealing With Global Food Insecurity
Dirty Energy Dollars
My sister has been jailed in Egypt for 900 days. When will the U.S. help free her?
What the Killing of Trayvon Martin Means for Maryland
No Iran deal, but significant progress in Geneva
A Mood Is Not A Movement: Five Ideas For The Anti-Trump Forces
Anacostia: Why I have faith in the future of my neighborhood
Small town America shouldn't resemble war zone
The Missing Ingredient in UN's 2030 Global Goals
What Secretary Clinton Does Not Recognize About Egypt’s Anti-Regime Protests
Can Obama Influence Ethiopia on Human Rights, Democracy?
How U.S. War Funds Get Wasted ... And How to Stop It
The Price of Abandoning Yemen
State Department Should Speak Out For Aya Hijazi, US Human Rights Defender In Egypt Prison
The ’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire
No Immunity for US Troops: Why Hamid Karzai Punted to Loya Jirga
How to fix our police departments
Our Love-Hate Relationship With Frankenstorms and Hurricane Sandy and Why We Must End It
Mideast peace deal… and they lived unhappily ever after
Mason student’s question to Democratic presidential candidate goes viral
Soldiers Into Students: Veterans, Educators Try to Ease Transition
Albany Gets "F" for Failing to Protect Tenants
Military spending is not right way to boost America's economic security
Divestment-Investment Can Break Congressional Gridlock on Climate Change
We're Unfair to Draft-Card Burners
What My Amish and Mennonite Forefathers Would Think About My Job in Congress (and Why I Left)
How Peer Pressure Brought Australia on Board Climate Fund
Fed Up With Climate Change Apathy
To finally see the invisible Israelis before our eyes
There is a Major Climate Issue Hiding in Your Closet: Fast Fashion
Bernie Sanders Vows To Fight Back Against Islamophobia In The 2016 Race
PCDN's Dr. Catalina Rojas awarded the prestigious SXSW Dewey Award for use of digital technology to help others
The challenge of violent extremism
Public ‘schools of hope’ could be anything but
Rand Paul's Filibuster Gives Civil Liberties A Rare Washington Moment
Why Americans Are Ready to Pay More Money for Cleaner Energy
Because National Governments Won't, Cities Are Pushing Zero-Energy Buildings
Awakening to Women: The Nobel Effect
Making Nonviolent Statecraft into a Self-Evident Truth
Press Pause on the Rush to War
What Aziz Abu Sarah learned in Hebrew school
THE RUSSIAN PLOT, Or, How to Avoid Taking Responsibility for Losing a Presidential Election
Republicans and the Mennonite vote
Congress vs. the Super-Pollutants
Insights Obama can now use to undermine Putin’s narrative
Freed Egyptian American prisoner returns home following Trump intervention
Gun Bans Aren't the Only Answer to America's Violence Problem
Dirt on Our Hands
How I learned to forgive my brother’s murderers
In Israel, the Rent Is Too Damn High
Settler Terrorism -- An American Problem
What Would MLK Think of America’s Modern Wars?
Protecting America's Clean Drinking Water
Mason intern ventures into rural Mexico conflict zone to practice mediation
When Washington Welcomes A Nonviolent Muslim: What CBS News and Congress Have In Common
Why Army women are demanding the right to fight — and die — in combat
Terrorism and Development
American Aid Worker Is Cleared of Child Abuse Charges in Egypt
‘Amish Mafia’ is a shameful, unrealistic portrayal of plain people
A Budget for Working America
The Federal response in Malheur and far right extremism
Post-Mubarak Egypt: From successful protest to sustainable social transformation
Mason’s Michael Shank Joins White House Climate Change Group
The Real War on Coal Starts in Kosovo
Ferguson, Social Justice, and the Role of Community Colleges
Congressmen urge Egypt to release Virginia woman from jail
From protests to politics, a new way forward for Yemen
Hurricane Sandy: Time to do something about climate change
America’s litmus test on Syria
Mason student researches homelessness from a conflict perspective
Sudan, after the breakup: Can violence be prevented?
Slavery and Climate – There's More in Common Than You Think, Vatican Says
To stop sexual assault against women in the US military, add more women
Don't Let China Dominate: When it comes to renewable energy, China is trumping the U.S.
A peace-building response to the rise of 'Trumpism'
Today, I join Khader Adnan’s hunger strike – will you?
WATCH: Bernie Sanders hugs Muslim student, vows to fight racism as Jew
America's police are looking more and more like the military
Syria's Next Generation
یەریڤان سەعید، توێژەر لە پەیمانگای وڵاتانی كەنداو لە واشنتۆن:
Time to write the rules for cyber and drone challenges
At Town Hall, Sanders Makes Commitment to 'End All Forms of Racism in This Country'
With Mike Duvall, Fall of Another ‘Family Values’ Crusader
Texas flood's climate change irony: Column
Addressing DC's truancy epidemic
America's Water Supply Is Going Down the Drain
Why Forest Whitaker Is Making the UN Goals Famous
Spreading Peace, Block by Block: A North Philly neighborhood rallies around its youth
Aziz Abu Sarah – Ending the Cycle of Violence in Israel and Palestine
How Climate Change Sparked the Crisis in Syria
Republicans want to fight climate change, too
Meryl Streep is right; bullying hurts us all
Tale of Two Conventions: Why Charlotte Wins Over White Tampa
Author, Terrorism Victim Hirsch Says Capital Punishment Hurts U.S. Image Abroad
Politics Unusual
A surprise from Trump’s first 100 days: His first international rescue was a Muslim woman
Why Protest? And What’s Next: Truth-Telling and Reconciliation for Ferguson and Beyond
Promoting peace, locally and globally
Proof Nuclear Energy Is a Huge Security Risk
A Palestinian drasha for Rosh Hashana
How Did Democratic Candidates Do? Our Latino Panel Weighs In
What Are the Rules of War?
Keeping the Keys: The Rise of the Palestinian Diplomatic Intifada
Streator Grads do 'Amazing Things'
Mass shootings show need for gun law reform
Minimum wage war reaches tipping point
Confederate flag: hatred or heritage?
Senators Welcome Release of Unjustly Imprisoned Egyptian-American Aya Hijazi
Prop. 35 tackles child sex-trafficking
Roads: Getting Them Done
25 Rights groups: The Belady Foundation case demonstrates that individual and community initiatives face only repression and fabricated charges
When nature trumps nurture, we all lose
A Cultural Awakening Leads to Abundance of Conflict Resolution Opportunities
Busting the Biofuels Boom
Detroit On The Brink
Activists: Release of Detainees in Syria Crucial to Peace Process
Shank and Gilchrest: Increasing the Peace Can Reduce the Debt
Tea-Party, Progressives United on Fast-Track Trade Authority
Washington Area Students Weigh in on South Sudan Conflict
GOP, follow Stevens' example
Hong Kong's 'Occupy': A movement for universal suffrage in Hong Kong is worrying Beijing
Academics & Activists Discuss Poverty, Inequality, Conflict
Yemen Can't Do It Alone
A picture of hope and courage
The Big Problems in Obama's Big Trade Deals
The Audacity of Air Strikes and Secret Deals: Just making Isis grow stronger?
Rights groups renew request for release of defendants in the Belady Foundation case and urge compliance with legal standards for pretrial detention
Higher education leans left. But why? And so what?
Climate crisis and the will to act
High school students learn conflict resolution through karate
Our Prejudicial and Political Pecking Order
The three-ring circus of American politics
Obama’s speech was more of the same - and not what we needed
Water shortages are coming. It's time for us to act.
The Saudis and the Iranians Need to Talk: And we need to make it happen
Doing away with food deserts in the District
The Meaning of Freedom
Teach, model, grow and live in empathy to build world peace, says interfaith expert Marc Gopin at Frontier Luncheon
Measuring the cost of violence
ISIS attacks fueled by illegal guns and open societies we can’t afford to lose
7 Ways Obama's U.N. Speech Revealed His Inconsistent Foreign Policy
Promoting Peace and Conflict Awareness In Small Town America: Independence, Kansas
Businesses Must Take the Lead on Climate-Change Action
Muslim advocates welcome Bernie Sanders' support but want visible action
Nato should negotiate a security structure that includes Russia
Confronting Homeland Security's 'SSSS' Watch List
Rubenstein, Faculty Member of the Year, took time to find his calling
Sequester set to sock it to D.C.’s poorest
Solon Simmons' "The Eclipse of Equality"
What Do We Mean When We Say "Clean Energy"?
Settler Turned Peace Activist Now Occupies Wall Street: Kobi Skolnick Puts Jewish Stamp on Protest, Not Just on Holidays
Hurricane Joaquin: Another Word for Climate Change
A Callous Disregard for the Law
Myanmar Fighting Poses Dilemma for China
Getting to “E Pluribus Unum”
What Paul Ryan’s economic roadmap means for America
Crisis management system for Japan and China

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