Violence

Does the brutality of American football, particularly head injuries, plays a role in the prevalence of players committing acts of violence against women?

Although the standard response to police and corrections staff violence is calls for improved training, violent behavior by uniformed officers is often deeply tied to a lack of monitoring …

With each of our dead, we mourn the loss of a piece of ourselves and with each of our raped we mourn the loss of a piece of our …

The profit-driven goals of neoliberal education policies are antithetical to progressive goals to educate productive participants in democratic culture.

Social structures such as racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, capitalism, and imperialism thrive on unmitigated and often state-sanctioned violence. The brutal murder of Michael Brown is but one example.

Violence against blacks has a long history in this country from slavery to Jim Crow to struggles over desegregation.

In the aftermath of the shooting, mainstream media outlets and the Twitterverse alike have condemned the riots and looting that followed a vigil for Brown on Monday night.

“Fear, privatization and depoliticization are the organizing principles of American society at the current moment.”

Michael Brown's killing by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri is symptomatic of “the neoliberal killing machine” that's emerging all over the world.

If we want to change the United States' senseless addiction to incarceration, the best possible place to start is transforming how our justice system treats our children.