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• We’re missing the point about Syrian refugees

  By konigludwig on September 10, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The solution is not opening up Europe’s borders; it’s defeating ISIL and removing Assad from power. By Hamish de Bretton-Gordon Europe and the Middle East are looking at a million refugees needing help today. This figure could easily escalate to… Read More ›

• Black Lives Matter

  By konigludwig on September 2, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The meme “All Lives Matter” is yet another effort to undermine legitimate calls to end antiblack police practices that characterize far too many interactions between police and citizens of color. Covered with a veneer of neutral and inclusive language, this… Read More ›

• American devotion to order over justice must end

  By konigludwig on August 28, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  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 ›

• The Black Lives Matter policy agenda is practical, thoughtful — and urgent

  By konigludwig on August 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• How America’s Overmedicating Low-Income and Foster Kids

  By konigludwig on August 16, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• Inside Shell’s Extreme Plan to Drill for Oil in the Arctic

  By konigludwig on August 10, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Turkey and U.S. Plan to Create Syria ‘Safe Zone’ Free of ISIS

  By konigludwig on July 28, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  By ANNE BARNARD, MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT JULY 27, 2015 BAGHDAD — Turkey and the United States have agreed in general terms on a plan that envisions American warplanes, Syrian insurgents and Turkish forces working together to sweep… Read More ›

• Why This Man Supports Iran Deal — Despite Bibi’s Bluster

  By konigludwig on July 18, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  “There is no ideal world, and there are no ideal agreements,” says Ami Ayalon, a former director of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service. “And let me add that there is no ideal Middle East.” Given the imperfections in the… Read More ›

• A New World Revealed

  By konigludwig on July 15, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  This morning, the United States became the first country to reach Pluto — and the first country to explore the entire classical solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons interplanetary probe has been… Read More ›

• A day in the life of a Palestinian child laborer

  By konigludwig on June 14, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  According to a Human Rights Watch report, hundreds of Palestinian youths, some as young as 11, are being employed on settlement farms. The work is hard, and conditions even harder. Three youngsters describe an average workday. Around 5 A.M., before… Read More ›