Hundreds of refugees denied asylum in New Mexico
While North Carolina congressional candidate Mark Walker is sounding off about wanting to declare war on Mexico, our elected officials are busy grossly mistreating Central American immigrants in New...
View ArticleThe Numbers of Climate Change: Obama Could do Much More
Obama's pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 300 million metric tons by 2030 and the Department of Agriculture's decision to spend $68 million on "540 renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects in...
View ArticleNo proof to link declining marriage rate with poverty
It's a common argument of modern conservative anti-feminists that the decline of the marriage rate is connected to the rise in poverty among women. This blog post at The Boston Review does a good job...
View ArticleIs Holding a Nuclear Arsenal Undemocratic?
September 26th was International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, a natural time to think about our own arsenal of nuclear weapons. In spite of the goals expressed in 2010's Nuclear...
View ArticleA Syrian Voice on Syria
"Conspicuously absent from the debate about ISIS and U.S. intervention—both in the mainstream and in the leftosphere—are Syrian voices,"writes Danny Postel, co-editor with Nader Hashemi of The Syria...
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