Robert Koehler

Maybe the problem is that rape is an extension of military culture. And it's metastasizing, even as legislation to address it stays trapped in congressional subcommittee. Scandals and outrage come and go, but rape is ever-present. In 2011, a Pentagon...

Let's all work together to stop terrorism! The Palm Beach County, Fla. Sheriff's Office has a new video out urging local citizens to call them if something "doesn't look right, doesn't smell right," and just seems off. For instance, you see a tourist...

You're strapped to a metal table, unable to move. They stick a two-foot plastic tube up your nose, then down the back of your throat into your stomach. They squirt in the liquid protein. You gag, bleed, vomit. It's unbearably painful. The practice of...

"Everywhere near the building, the stench of death was overpowering. Men in surgical masks sprayed disinfectant in the air." We move from tragedy to tragedy with hellish regularity. "The scope of injuries," Jim Yardley writes in the New York Times, "was...

In the new security state, not even garbage will have privacy. "Terrorism," the Chicago Sun-Times informed us last week, "has created a new market in Chicago and other big cities for a company that started out making bear resistant garbage containers...

"She had a great sense of humor and freckles and red hair that brought her right to her Irish roots." She was "a dream daughter." I have a daughter, so maybe that's why these words cut so deep. This was a dad's description of a young woman, Krystle...

In the not so distant future, America's skies will be full of . . . drones. What could go wrong? "Although the prospect of drones flying over U.S. cities is generating cries of spies in the skies," writes the Los Angeles Times, "groups from California...

Are the bad ideas dead yet? You know, the ones that have been hollowing out the country's soul for the last 30 years. In Atlanta, they just indicted 35 teachers, principals and administrators, including a former superintendent, for routinely altering...

"The status quo in Chicago is no longer tolerable," Andy Willis said, summoning the violent headlines of the past year and the past week. This was Palm Sunday, in a church basement in a big-city neighborhood, and the time had come to stand for...

We've lost a war without being able to surrender -- and thus divest ourselves of the consciousness that got us into it. We are unable to look honestly at what we did and why, and determine not to do it again. My friend Catherine Menninger sent me a...

"Indeed," writes David Korten, "we have become so entranced in the illusion that money is a measure of real wealth and a storehouse of value that we have allowed it to displace life as our object of sacred veneration and become the ultimate arbiter of...

Philip Zimbardo's TED Talk on Abu Ghraib and "The Psychology of Evil" is up to 2,374,000 hits. Apparently people are hungry to know about the deep psychology of American foreign policy. And perhaps they're hungry to look, again . . . again . . . at the...