Chelsea Manning Prison Conditions Are ‘Torture’
. . . according to a letter from Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer. Read the article at The Intercept.
. . . according to a letter from Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer. Read the article at The Intercept.
Portugal solved its drug crisis. Why can’t America do the same? Read more at The Huffington Post.
There is a pernicious myth that affects the way we think about markets. Read the article at Dollars & Sense.
In the last U.S. presidential election in 2016, 6.1 million Americans could not vote because of laws that disenfranchise people with past felony convictions. Read about it Facing South.
by Carol Anderson America hangs in the balance. The elections in November next year will determine whether the United States continues down the road of authoritarian dynastic rule or reclaims the work of expanding and…
Ending overpolicing will require much more than better oversight and training By Alex S. Vitale Policing needs to be reformed. We do indeed need new training regimes, enhanced accountability, and a greater public role in…
By Yosef Brody PUSH, a new documentary that had its world premiere at the CPH:DOX film festival in Copenhagen in March, where it won the festival’s Audience Award, is coming to the U.S., and not…
“The employers who are willing to hire us will take advantage of us. They will threaten to turn us in. They will want to pay us less because they will say they are taking a…
Other countries show it doesn’t have to be that way. Read the original article at Huffington Post.
Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine Read the original article on Lithub.