DOJ Reaches Agreement to Reform Cleveland Police Brutality
The Department of Justice found that a pattern of excessive force has eroded public confidence in the Cleveland Police Department. How will they repair the distrust between the community and the people they protect?
Big Brother/NSA Spies Stopped In Their Tracks; But for How Long?
A decision was recently made saying the NSA surveillance program goes beyond what is appropriate under the Patriot Act. With the Patriot Act up for renewal in a couple weeks, this ruling will hopefully get U.S. citizens to rise up and demand this government respect their privacy.
We are militarism’s hostages
There is a danger that our world, with all the beauty and value that it contains, will be destroyed by this cynical game for power and money, in which civilians are militarism's hostages.
Tucker Carlson’s ‘great replacement’ theory comes from an anti-American Nazi
Why has the American far right adopted an anti-American conspiracy theory as its rallying cry?
Darkness on the prairie: The death of Colten Boushie
Indigenous youth will account for almost 25% of Saskatchewan’s young people by 2031; attitudes need to change or more lives will be wasted.
Child separation & prison camps: China’s campaign against Uyghur Muslims is “cultural genocide”
An estimated 1 million adults from the Uyghur community are being imprisoned in camps that China claims are “vocational training centers” designed to combat extremism.
Guantánamo’s last 100 days
The story that never was.
Will Trump give America’s science lead to China?
The world will not stand still while Trump walks the nation’s science and technology into mere clay.
Relief at Derek Chauvin conviction a sign of long history of police brutality
"You were told, for example, that Mr. Floyd died because his heart was too big […] [but] the truth of the matter is—that the reason George Floyd is dead is because Mr Chauvin’s heart was too small."
The Supreme Court’s subtle hint on police accountability
Recent rulings suggest the high court may be open to ‘recalibrating’ qualified immunity.