During 20 years of writing intermittently about the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq soon after, I encountered a dilemma: how to honor the warriors without honoring the wars.I have met and corresponded with people who lost loved ones in combat or were seriously injured themselves.... 30, 2001, The Washington Post published a poll that showed only 2 of every 10 Americans opposed military action, even if it led to war.... I wrote a column taking sides with the peaceniks, which drew a compl

It comes amid a worsening global biodiversity crisis that threatens onemillion species with extinction, many within decades.... Human activities like farming, logging, mining and damming take habitat from animals and pollute much of what is left.... " It's a tragedy." Since the passage of the Act, 54 species in the United States have been removed from the endangered list because their populations recovered, while another 48 have improved enough to move from endangered to threatened....