Politics
Like many others, I’ve worked for years to get Americans to think expansively and compassionately about immigration. In a decade dominated by the push for what’s been
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September 18, 2012 // 0 Comments
“The world is not worthy of words,” wrote the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia last spring after his son, Juanelo, was murdered by asphyxiation as yet another victim
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September 17, 2012 // 0 Comments
When Angelica Moreno’s brother died of cancer inside a private prison in Mississippi, she vowed to fight so that he’d be the last to suffer such a fate. “I want to
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September 14, 2012 // 1 Comment
My first day in Honduras last week was also my first in a truly “Third World” country, though from what I’ve seen, portions of Russia and the Appalachians could give it
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September 14, 2012 // 0 Comments
When I was a kid there was what we used to call white lies. You distinguished them from lies that were untrue. You told white lies because you did not want to reveal a secret
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September 13, 2012 // 0 Comments
In the weeks since news came to light that former Black Panther Richard Aoki had some involvement with the FBI, many people in the progressive community have been besiged by
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September 13, 2012 // 0 Comments
Step back from the news cycle a moment and what you see is a week in which toxic, wildly irresponsible right-wingers have been trying to set a series of fires around the
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September 13, 2012 // 0 Comments
Americans’ personal privacy is being crushed by the rise of a four-headed corporate-state surveillance system. The four “heads” are: federal government agencies;
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September 12, 2012 // 0 Comments
“What’s wrong with this picture?” I asked: A pow wow grand entry, the Eagle Staff closely followed by the U.S. stars and stripes and the POW/MIA
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September 11, 2012 // 0 Comments
Before right-wing paramilitaries came to kill and torture the people of Emilia González’s* farming community on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, they more or less
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September 11, 2012 // 0 Comments