We need to disrupt the legal and political system that expects people of color to shut up and women to behave By Chaumtoli Huq Last summer, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, I stood on the sidewalk in Times… Read More ›
Month: August 2015
In The Maelstrom Created
lost in a melodramatic moment of unrepentant angst with money being the only requirement and thanks a veritable storm of oratory, rhetoric without the music waving, shouting from the pulpit, ever egocentric to soothe the soul, capture the minds, ignite… Read More ›
The Black Lives Matter policy agenda is practical, thoughtful — and urgent
By Radley Balko Last week, the leaders of Black Lives Matter* released a series of policy solutions to address police killings, excessive force, profiling and racial discrimination, and other problems in law enforcement, called “Campaign Zero.” Critics and police organizations… Read More ›
Talent
delicate etching, engraved to make a picture of lace wood precision, laved for balance of a face more than more, the gift talent through eons shift in each casting, seen complete or incomplete the symmetric of keen lineated flair, undelete… Read More ›
Open letter to progressives: You’re doing it wrong and it’ll cost the Democratic Party
I was thick in the progressive movement when BLM interrupted Bernie Sanders at Netroots Nation in PHX, then again when the 2 independent activists disrupted the event for Soc Sec/Medicare. My first reaction was selfish — I had just found a… Read More ›
How America’s Overmedicating Low-Income and Foster Kids
More kids in the U.S., especially low-income and foster-care children, are on antipsychotics than in any other country. States are just starting to intervene. By Chris Kardish Allen Brenzel, a child psychiatrist in Lexington, Ky., can point to the moment… Read More ›
Black Lives Matter Seattle Protestor Is A Former Tea Party Palin Supporter
By Paul Loebe An interesting development has occurred within the Black Lives Matter movement and it has caused many outside and from within the movement to question the wisdom in the most recent interruption of Bernie Sanders campaign. While no… Read More ›
Inside Shell’s Extreme Plan to Drill for Oil in the Arctic
A global oil glut has tanked prices and cut profits—so why won’t Shell give up on the north? Surprise lurks in the Chukchi, whose frigid waters north of the Bering Strait span from Alaska to Siberia. Logistical and legal obstacles… Read More ›
Palestinian baby killed in arson attack ‘by Israeli settlers’
Attackers thought to be Jewish extremists threw Molotov cocktail into West Bank home, killing 18-month-old boy and severely injuring his four-year-old brother and both parents It was a scene of chilling, sadistic callousness. The masked men – almost certainly Jewish… Read More ›
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