| Apr 19, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s that time of year again. Flowers are flowering, spring is springing, and across the country college graduates are graduating with their newly awarded degrees held high. Also high is the mountain of student debt most of these recent graduates are taking on. All...
| | Environment / HealthIf you live in Austin, Texas, the city will pay you to get chickens. That’s right. Whereas in the past, cities often banned urban chickens, our nation has now crossed a threshold in which a city will pay residents to keep chickens. The program is an effort to...
| Apr 12, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyOne of President Trump’s favorite themes is what he calls “American carnage” — typified by “the violence” and “the gangs.” To that end, he’s repeatedly highlighted the violence in Chicago. A few days after he was inaugurated,...
| Feb 15, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyIn July 2016, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch committed the Department of Justice to investigating the shooting of Alton Sterling, a black man who was murdered by police outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge. The move represented the deepening of a tangible...
| Jan 18, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyOne day in a Latvian town more than 100 years ago, when my grandmother wasn’t much more than a girl, she heard that the czar’s “recruiters” were coming to conscript men into the Russian army for 20-year terms. Two days before they came, a handsome young man...
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