Police officer fired after killing unarmed teen
Although they fired Oliver, the department refuses to release the police body cam footage from that evening.
Surviving today’s toxic brew of doomsday moralism, criminality and derangement
You don’t have to be an English major to appreciate that style reveals as much as content when assessing persona, character and...
Resistance in a time of gunfire
We don’t have to reinvent ourselves along violent lines. Instead, we can become a country that changes itself through nonviolent revolution.
Russia, NATO, and the future of neutrality
Neither the formerly non-aligned of Europe nor the currently non-aligned of the Global South are interested in furthering Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions.
America has arrived at a crossroads of history; will it take the RIGHT road?
The judges of human history are waiting at the crossroads, waiting for the USA to choose the direction it will take.
Stephen Colbert raises $1 million for Puerto Rican disaster relief
Colbert managed to continue raising awareness for the hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico while raising $1 million in less than a week.
American carnage: To be Black in Trump’s America
While Black people are certainly not the sole target of Trump’s rhetoric and the abuse of like-minded mobs, we are one of the greatest tests of the functioning of American democracy.
A year of Resistance – and why I’m hopeful for 2018
Americans from all walks of life are now awake to the threats this administration poses to our democracy, our health, our climate and basic human rights.
Innocent man wins nearly $1M after NYPD cops try to frame him for DWI
“They ran a stop sign and I think they were trying to hide that they caused the accident.”
Supreme Court upholds Idaho’s stringent abortion ban, escalating the national reproductive rights crisis
In a controversial decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstates Idaho's strict abortion law, igniting a national debate over reproductive rights.