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There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …

William Rivers Pitt: "Despite the grotesque perversion of simple morality that has so gruesomely twisted the fabric of life in America, we will someday prevail, and find a better …

Frank Richards remembers how Officers of both sides of a war came to an understanding that the unofficial truce during trench warfare on Christmas.

Hyperbole? You decide if this is how you believe the police should behave when citizens are exercising their constitutional right to free speech.

President Obama has the option to get the ball rolling on a Congressional minimum wage raise by raising wages for federal contract workers.

The same day that the Times editorialized to excoriate President Obama for his latest betrayal of civil liberties, MoveOn sent out a huge email blast sucking up to Obama.

When asked if his administration would investigate torture allegations, Obama said it would be unproductive to “look backwards.”

History is chock full of conscientious objection, though it sometimes takes some hunting around to glimpse it.

Bill Black: Draconian measure enacted by Kansas Board of Regents that effectively ends tenure and limits academic freedom could be replicated at colleges nationwide.

Even amidst a modest reduction in the US prison population, the number of aging men and women expected to die behind bars has skyrocketed in a system ill prepared …