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In a recent talk to a conference on better using mobile health technology, Ted Turner, the founder of CNN among other achievements, said that the increasing interconnectedness of the world makes war increasingly undesirable. He pointed out that the media now makes it more difficult for nations to conduct military campaigns. He then cites the…

There’s a small group of young people who do seem to be a forgotten target of discrimination. They are non-citizens who fought in the armed forces, came back, somehow got in trouble and now face deportation. Had they been killed in action, they would have been given citizenship and buried with appropriate military honors. Even…

The elections are behind us and what remains is for me like a scary taste. It’s not the results per se that scare me, it’s the ignorance that seems to pervade the process. Politicians bend truths to suit their agenda, that’s an old story. But lately it does appear to have often gone beyond that.…