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“We Don’t Have the Rule of Law”: Barrett Brown on Prison, Journalism and More
We can only survive as a country to the extent that we do not enforce our own laws, says journalist Barrett Brown.
New Public Database Reveals Striking Differences in How Guns Are Regulated From State to State
Because of inaction on the part of the federal government, it is up to each individual state to develop its own policies to reduce gun violence.
Six Things Trump’s FCC Chairman Doesn’t Want You to Know About Net Neutrality
For net neutrality supporters, the last week felt like deja vu.
How Is Trump Picking a New FBI Director Even a Thing?
It would be a travesty for Trump to nominate, and for the Senate to confirm, a new FBI director until the issue of Trump's conduct is resolved.
Teaching the Roots of Trumpism, One Semester In
Students and educators must resist Trumpism or risk ceding ground to anti-intellectualism, troll culture and xenophobia.
Did Trump Campaign Rhetoric Empower the White Extremist Who Killed Two Bystanders on Portland Train?
For the second time in a week, a military man was killed by a white extremist.
Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on How the US Can Avoid Sliding Into Authoritarianism
Is the United States sliding toward tyranny?
Dahr Jamail | Trump: Totalitarian or Authoritarian?
Trump may be under fire, but he remains a dire threat. We must strive to understand that threat if we are to beat it.
The Other Special Prosecutor We Need
Trump and his inner circle cashing in on the White House is its own growing scandal.
Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia
Supplying “alternative facts” is one way of destroying memory. Erasing real facts is another.