Justice

In its current, intensely bureaucratic form, the asylum process – particularly for people who are frightened of official agencies with their endless forms and impersonal approach – is at best intimidating, at worse dysfunctional.

When does merely offensive speech becomes oppressive? When should one person’s freedom of expression, no matter how offensive, be defended and when does a pattern of abusive expression clearly undermine the ability of others to participate fully in a classroom discussion?

“It’s time that we take responsibility for our own lives … that we create a world which gives us the power to act, instead of hoping that other people will solve problems.”

What really stands in the way of closing Guantánamo?

“The Democratic Party has a choice. It can open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change...Or the party can choose to maintain its status quo structure."

A disturbing new documentary that examines lynching in the United States both past and present.

But Trump doesn’t care what’s in the U.S. constitution any more than he cares what trees make up his toilet paper.

The Trump campaign may be collapsing under the weight of its standard-bearer’s personal history; but an important reason it got this far is that it advanced the lie that American workers would benefit from the construction of a wall.

Lawmakers have clearly stated that their goal is to get the topic in front of the Supreme Court, currently boasting a conservative majority, to legally overturn Roe V. Wade and outlaw abortion altogether.

The militarized response to communities of color signals a possible double standard in law enforcement’s acceptance of civil disobedience.