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America’s Killer Prisons
I get a lot of letters from people who’ve been incarcerated, or are now behind bars. Legally I can’t respond directly, because I’m an ex-con myself: I was locked up after blowing the whistle on the CIA’s illegal and immoral torture program. Direct contact with current...
Walling off Common Sense
“We're going to do the wall," Donald Trump told a cheering crowd of supporters in a victory speech following the South Carolina Republican primary. He was reiterating his fanciful promise to wall off the entire U.S.-Mexico border — and force Mexico to pay for it....
Mitch McConnell Is a Supreme Hypocrite
Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right wingers on the Supreme Court is dead. But in a blatantly partisan ploy to prevent President Barack Obama from nominating a successor to Scalia, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has cited a brand new...
Hillary Clinton’s Little Red Riding Hood Problem
In OtherWords: February 17, 2016
This week in OtherWords, Raul A. Reyes sizes up Marco Rubio's presidential bid and Donald Kaul weighs in on Justice Antonin Scalia’s legacy. If you haven’t already subscribed, please ensure that you don’t miss the latest from OtherWords by signing up for our free...
What’s at Stake with the Supreme Court
Nearly every issue that matters to the American people eventually finds its way before the Supreme Court. Whether it’s access to health care, the right of women to make personal medical decisions, the ability of workers to defend themselves against discrimination, or...
See Marco Run
Since his relatively strong third-place showing in Iowa, the ups and downs of Senator Marco Rubio’s GOP presidential campaign are getting more attention. And so are the lefts and rights. After the man once dubbed “The Republican Savior“ by Time magazine fared well in...
I Am Kalief Browder
The day before I started high school, my father took me up to the park around the corner from our house to have “the talk.” It’s the talk black families had when Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Florida. It’s the talk we had when Michael Brown was shot and killed...
The Passion of Scalia
My mother always told me never to speak ill of the dead. For that reason I won't go on at length about Antonin Scalia, the recently departed Supreme Court justice. My opinion wouldn’t be worth that much anyway. I didn’t know the man — I was never even in the same room...
Scalia’s Ghost Can’t Save Oil, Gas, and Coal
Bleak news for fossil fuels is piling up higher than an icy Washington snowbank in the capital's most precipitation-challenged state. Peabody Energy, the nation’s biggest coal company, is limping toward bankruptcy after its shares sank 99 percent over the past two...
