| Aug 12, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyThe Senate has done it again — blocked a vote on a bill that would make it safer for sexual assault survivors in the military to report their attackers. Introduced by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the Military Justice Improvement Act would take the decision about...
| Jun 10, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyWhen Dennis Hastert was indicted for trying to cover up some $3.5 million in hush money payments to a man he’d allegedly sexually abused decades ago, Washington was shocked. I wasn’t. I was shocked that Hastert, who’d spent the better part of his life in public...
| | Rights / DemocracyWe’re supposed to be the “land of the free.” But believe it or not, the United States is actually the most incarcerated country on the planet. It’s true: While the United States has just 5 percent of the world’s population, it houses 25 percent of...
| Jun 6, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyI try to avoid religious commentary, but — Good God! What is it about confession that the Catholic hierarchy can’t seem to grasp? The grotesque epidemic of priestly pedophilia that has roiled the church has been under assessment in a five-year, $2-million...
| Apr 12, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe Catholic Church didn’t just celebrate Easter this year, it re-enacted it. The main difference between the Church’s ordeal and The Passion of the Christ is that the Church’s wounds are largely self-inflicted. The sexual abuse scandal that began in...
