Prison inmates fighting California’s deadly fires
More than 2,000 inmates are working as firefighters, prompting new debate over this aspect of prison labor.
Unholy Secrets: The Legal Loophole That Allows Clergy To Hide Child Sexual Abuse
Clergy-penitent privilege sometimes called “priest or pastor-penitent privilege,” is complicating child sexual abuse cases involving clergy.
Police Release Video of Mentally Ill Man Who Died in Custody
“They knew he was disabled, they knew he was bipolar, they knew he was on social security, and they still killed him.”
MLK’s dream of housing equality
Housing was a key part of King’s vision for economic justice, but most black Americans don’t own homes.
Former Honduran police chief charged with trafficking drugs to US
“Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the former chief of the Honduran National Police, allegedly abused his positions in Honduran law enforcement to flout the law and play a key role in a violent international drug trafficking conspiracy.”
‘Attacking the very foundations’ of church-state separation, SCOTUS delivers ‘seismic shock’ ruling on religious...
"A State need not subsidize private education. But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy pushes natural gas as climate solution at contentious town hall...
Senator Cassidy assures his consituents there will be oversight, but how can he when he is sorely out of touch?
Beyond our control
America in the Mid-Seventies and 2020
Secret Service agent suspended after meeting with prostitute
Last week, an unidentified Secret Service agent solicited a prostitute while off-duty in Maryland, according to CNN’s law enforcement sources
After Texas walkout, Sanders says Senate Dems must show the ‘same courage’ by passing...
“We must pass S. 1, the For The People Act. The future of American democracy is at stake.”