Hannah Lythe is a former policy and outreach assistant at Sojourners.
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Can We Stand to Lose 70,000 Children?
Afghanistan Weekly Digest: Taliban. Kill Team. Photos.
Afghanistan Weekly Digest: Security. Taxpayer Money. Fighting Season.
Writing Words to Change a Life
I love words. They nourish me more than food. As a child (and even now, as an adult) I read novel after novel, losing myself in the characters, the plot, and the effortless descriptions of good writers. If I could swallow the New York Times, I would. (There are also many other fantastic newspaper publications out there; I'm not partial.) The discovery of Google reader has been my biggest internet distraction to date. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but I'd rather the thousand words.
Afghanistan Weekly Digest: Petraeus apologizes. Women's rights. National treasures.
Afghanistan Weekly Digest: Army Psy-Ops. Taliban Infighting. Mobile Banking.
Afghanistan Weekly Digest: Civilian Casualties. Drones. Solutions.
What Would You Do With $1 Trillion?
The United States has already spent $3 trillion on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Who Will Listen to the Voices of Veterans Calling for Peace?
'Daisy Girl' is Still Counting: A Push for START Ratification
As someone who watched Lyndon Johnson's 1964 original "Daisy Girl" campaign ad in her high school history class, the reappearance of this motif in the http://am