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Op-Ed
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White American’s “Equal Opportunity Anger” Leads to Execution-Style Deaths of Three Muslim Americans
The murders may not be ruled a hate crime, but the killer was surely motivated by more than frustration over a parking space.
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Nonviolent Action: A Ballet, Not a Battle
The methods of nonviolent action are not weapons, but tools of societies evolving toward justice and equality.
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Putin’s Anti-Populist Economics
Vladimir Putin's decision to reject advice from economists who tell him anything he doesn't want to hear feels very familiar to me and, I'm sure, to many others who've …
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In Whose US? Machine Guns, MRAPs, Surveillance, Drones, Permanent War and a Permanent Election Campaign
This is a country walking back nothing as it heads into a heavily militarized future.
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Obama: Sound Theology and Smart Politics
President Obama's remarks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast were theologically sound and politically smart.
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Chicago Torture: Freedom for Jon Burge Can’t Be the Last Chapter
Truth and justice are decades behind schedule, but they are still within reach.
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White Terror: Spirituality, Ancestral Memory and the Politics of Remembering
By recognizing the ways in which we are all implicated and often complicit in the system of whiteness, we can begin to undo and heal from the violence that …
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Mexico’s Youth Under Siege
The war on drugs is a war against young people; nation's resources and life itself are at stake.
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Once White in the US: Raising Black Sons in a White Country
Jane Lazarre offers an intimate, lyrical, post-Ferguson look at what it's meant to her to raise her two black sons in the contemporary United States.
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Charlie Hebdo: When Freedom of Speech Isn’t Paramount
The concept of a civil society depends on far more than simply unrestrained freedom of speech.