| Jan 20, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyYou may have heard there’s a growing political movement against mass incarceration. Someone should clue in the judges. In the past 30 years, federal judges have turned to imprisonment — as opposed to probation — as the punishment of choice for even minor crimes,...
| Jan 13, 2016 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Jim Hightower sums up the logistical challenges behind building Donald Trump’s dream wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, I explain why the GOP front-runner’s pledge to “take their oil” is a terrible idea, and Donald...
| | Peace / SecurityDonald Trump’s first presidential campaign ad pledges to “take their oil.” That’s what President (gasp) Trump would do after having “quickly cut the head off the Islamic State,” says the deep-voiced narrator. Along with political decapitation, there are many...
| | Peace / SecurityThe armed men occupying an isolated federal building in a remote Oregon bird sanctuary say they won’t leave until the federal government stops its “tyranny.” Yet it’s not clear what that tyranny is, exactly. One of the group’s leaders is Ammon...
| Dec 30, 2015 | Roundup|UncategorizedBefore 2015, we never had the privilege of seeing Donald Trump — a man who goes to great lengths to never muss up his hair — hawking baseball caps and becoming the GOP front-runner. Or watching Martin Shkreli — the ultimate legal drug kingpin — get busted for fleecing...
