This last long grasp of white supremacy might last for more than a decade or two – who knows, and there will be times when it musters other spurts of vitality, but nothing like 2016.
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Under Trump, Things Don’t Look Good for Prison Reform and Rehabilitation
Where Obama sought to reduce unnecessary incarceration for minor crimes, Trump signed three executive orders that 'Rolling Stone' called “consistent with his firm but demonstrably false view that crime is out of control.”
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Trial of Prisoner 043’ by Terry Jastrow
In 'The Trial of Prisoner 043' author Terry Jastrow provocatively imagines George W. Bush being tried for war crimes because of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Read More »Book Review: ‘Samaritans’ by Jonathan Lynn
'Samaritans' by Jonathan Lynn skewers American healthcare system and the political arguments over the Affordable Care Act.
Read More »Another Policeman Acquitted: Where Is Our David?
Nowadays it is abundantly clear that policemen in the United States can kill black people with impunity.
Read More »Millennials Are Ditching Politics in Favor of Community Action
Businesses know that millennials will switch to their competitors, or simply go without, if they have a poor reputation for social responsibility.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time’ by Brooke Gladstone
In 'The Trouble with Reality' media analyst Brooke Gladstone examines what she calls an "epic existential battle" over reality
Read More »Book Review: ‘Confessions of a Heretic’ by Roger Scruton
The English philosopher and aesthete reminds thinking people – and especially liberals – that despite rampant know-nothingism on today's political right wing, the conservative movement has always had an intellectual foundation.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2017: Monday, March 13 (Austin, TX)
SuperGlu and Magic Island helped kickstart the first day of SXSW Music Festival 2017 in Austin, Texas.
Read More »Thoughts on Divinity, Forgiveness, Bernie, and Trump
I am in a divine struggle within, how to speak the truth while loving and forgiving?
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