Meredith Moody is volunteering for CAPA as a summer intern. We’re glad to be able to publish her essay, “The Hypocrisy of a Selectively Applied Terrorism Label.” The United States’ State Sponsor of Terrorism designation carries consequences far beyond the

The following was posted by Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago on June 12, 2026. It is used with his permission. In December 2008, I visited Iran on an interfaith delegation with the peace and justice organization, Fellowship of Reconciliation, At

The following is excerpted slightly from a commencement speech by the journalist Fareed Zakaria at Bard College on May 23, 2026. It is reprinted with his permission. I need to give you a trigger warning. I’ve noticed in this commencement

Lesley Williams is a librarian and equity consultant who organizes around anti-racism and Palestine with Jewish Voice for Peace, the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and Global Jews for Justice in Palestine. She was the 2024 recipient of CAPA’s Robert Cleland

This poem was composed by Nūr Johnson, a senior in the Justice Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. Nūr, who is a CAPA intern, presented the poem at a program on “art as resistance” at the university, April 2, 2026.The light

Erin Bosack is acting CAPA Co-President and delivered this speech at the Wilmette, IL No Kings Day Rally on 3/28/26. Good morning. I’d like to ask you to do something. Take a moment to acknowledge yourself or someone else in

Jack Lawlor is a member of the CAPA Foreign Policy Working Group and leader of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s Chicago Chapter. This essay is an effort to enhance understanding among ordinary Americans about the perils of nuclear weapons and a

David Borris is a former CAPA president and current board member We must understand and recognize the disturbing and growing danger represented by the pending expiration of the LAST remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the two most prolific possessors

Several CAPA members felt this article by journalist Zakaria well complemented the pieces we’re posting today by our own Jack Lawlor and David Borris. February 6, 2026 We all sense that the world is entering a more uncertain phase. Alliances

Walt Zlotow blogs at heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com/ and serves as president of Chicagoland’s West Suburban Peace Coalition. CAPA is grateful to him for permission to repost his essay Every day Ukraine sinks deeper into shattered rump state status. Every day brings more

An  American educator, writer, and Buddhist priest in the Sōtō Zen sect, Brian Andre Victoria has been a peace activist since the 1960s. This essay, published originally in CounterCurrents, is used with permission. Victoria lives in Kyoto, Japan. CounterCurrents readers

Jim Huffman, a CAPA board member, is a scholar of Japanese history and imperialism. The brutality of ICE agents in Chicago the last few months has brought to mind repeatedly lessons we should have learned decades ago when respectable, peace-loving

This response to Diesen’s and Wilkerson’s interview (listenable here) is by Sean Reynolds, an activist in CAPA’s Foreign Policy Working Group. Years ago, before the Soleimani assassination and before COVID, I got to tour Iran’s capital of Tehran, and Isfahan,

Here, a U.S. citizen from Chicago shares the story of what happened to his relatives as immigrants from Latin America. Although the essay exceeds the usual Viewpoints word limit, we are running it in full because it has such important