Dear Editor: To achieve peace and prosperity, I feel the following are necessary:

End aggressive U.S. interventions abroad. They're simply wrong, and they make our nation a target for well-warranted global rage.

Overcome systemic racism. We wouldn't want to trade places with minorities enduring chronic joblessness, opportunity denial, and police excess. Groups like Black Lives Matter and the Standing Rock water protectors deserve our solidarity.

Women and the LGBTQ community require full rights. Otherwise we'll make a mockery of our professed values, as we'd also do by turning away immigrants and refugees.

We need affordable single-payer health care such as other developed nations enjoy, plus strong labor unions capable of guaranteeing workers living wages.

Obscenely profiteering corporations and banks should be broken up. No more outrageous EpiPen price hikes or Wells Fargo phantom accounts.

Begin swift transition to clean, renewable energy sources. Not just for planetary sustainability, but to avoid conflict that productive land lost to climate change is already causing.