Op-Ed

Mayor de Blasio pointed out that the children who were being targeted to give up their current facilities to make way for a charter co-location happen to matter, too.

In seeking the death penalty for the accused Boston marathon bomber, Eric Holder violates his personal opposition, Boston public opinion and growing nationwide resistance to execution as criminal punishment.

A nuclear weapons treaty to achieve Nuclear Zero is the only way to counter the obvious insanity of nuclear weapons in any form.

America's health care system neglects people who require long-term care and denies them the opportunity to lead full, rewarding lives.

Benjamin: I had no reason to think I'd end up in a jail cell at the Cairo airport and then violently deported.

How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song “Mathematics” changed in the 15 years since the song's release?

The Western world has become tolerant of despotic policies. But will recognition of that passivity's root causes bring much-needed resistance?

For 114 years, The William Morris Agency has perpetuated overtly racist policies. Now Leonard Rowe has filed commercial liens against the agency.

Buying and selling political influence is a consensual crime with a radically different nature. Enforcing laws against this crime is practically impossible.

We are just entering the era when high-tech companies own, control and actively participate in mainstream media. Is that a good thing?