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(6 comments) SHARE Monday, February 7, 2022 Can We Still Save U.S. Democracy?
Voting rights reform has died an ignoble death in Congress. The way forward isn't clear or inspiring, but at least we still have one.
SHARE Monday, February 7, 2022 Does the Supreme Court's Power Pose a Threat to Its Legitimacy?
A court seen as becoming increasingly politicized in ways unpopular to the majority of Americans risks decades of reputational damage.
The modern Supreme Court is one of the most powerful tribunals in the world and across history.
That immense power has arguably made the court a leading player in enacting policy in the U.S. It may also cause the loss of the court's legitimacy
SHARE Tuesday, September 13, 2016 The Big Difference at Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around
This fight is about the water. And because the messaging is that water is life, so many people can connect with that. Whether you're native or non-Native, whether you're from Chicago or Detroit or New Orleans or up in the Bakken, we all understand the importance of protecting the water. That brings us together.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 11, 2016 Obama Pipeline Plot Twist Is Not a Victory -- And Could Erase the Struggle
What's happening with Standing Rock? It's the same old con game. Federal authorities are going to give a very serious matter very serious consideration, and then...we'll see. The formula couldn't be clearer. Obama will be celebrated as having "stopped a pipeline" when the project has, at best, been paused. By erasing an ongoing struggle, you're helping to build a pipeline.
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 3, 2015 Baltimoreans Celebrate Charging of Officers--But Say It's Just First Step
Cheers erupted on the steps of the War Memorial building in Baltimore when State Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced that the six police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray will have charges brought against them. Yet the situation on the streets remained tense
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 9, 2014 6 Ways to Bring More Empathy to the Internet
We asked psychologists, user experience designers, and writers what web users could to do to promote more empathic interaction in online places. Here's what they said.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Glenn Greenwald on Government Snooping: Why It's Dangerous and What We Can Do About It
U.S. tech companies like Facebook and Google and Microsoft and Cisco and Yahoo are genuinely petrified about the effect that this surveillance will have on their future. Why would people around the world want to use U.S. tech companies if they know that those companies will turn their data over to the NSA? It can be paralyzing. It can engender paranoia. It can make you refrain from doing things that you ought to do.
SHARE Saturday, March 1, 2014 West Virginians Raise Alarm as Research Links Coal Mining to Cancer, Birth Defects
A study that compared two rural West Virginia communities, one with mining and one without, found that self-reported cancer rates were twice as high in the mining areas. In areas with mountaintop removal (or surface mining), rates of lung, bladder, kidney, and colon cancer, along with leukemia, are all higher than in non-mining areas.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 24, 2013 Two Years After the Eviction of OWS, Here's 5 People Keeping the Movement Alive
Two years ago today, when Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park, many wondered what was next for the movement. Two years later, we profile five projects that got their starts in the encampments and are still making change today.