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Not All of the Black Freedom Fighters Are Men: Black Women on the Front Line in Ferguson
“The media has left out that if it were not for Black Women, there would be no movement.”
Martial Law and the Criminalization of Thought in Thailand
Despite the repressive context, and ample evidence that the authorities will not hesitate to use both legal and extrajudicial strategies to halt dissent, courageous citizens continue to protest.
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Watching Our Health Go Up in Smoke
Medical waste incineration never made any public health or economic sense, but now science has overwhelmingly demonstrated its noxiousness.
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Mayor de Blasio’s “Living Wage” Increase Is Too Little for Too Few
Increasing the living wage is a good start, but all of New York's minimum wage workers deserve a raise.
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ISIS in Washington: The United States’ Soundtrack of Hysteria
“Amid the waves of fear and continual headlines about terror plots, we, the people, have now largely been relegated to the role of frightened spectators.”
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Michael Brown Had a Father
Will Ferguson shift media ideas on “fixing” black men?
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A Crisis Turned Catastrophe in Texas
The Texan legislature created a crisis of women's health care with House Bill 2, and the latest decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will bring Texan women …
International Day of Nonviolence in Afghanistan
We need this excitement to generate more and more circles of friendship, along with many more relationships that can help us understand that our governments have unfortunately disguised perpetual …
The Smart Bomb
My parents, I can hardly recognize them.
Humpty-Dumpty and the Fall of Berlin’s Wall
Why did the German Democratic Republic go under?