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Thurgood Marshall’s Prescient Warning: Don’t Gut the 4th Amendment
By Conor Friedersdorf In a story on the secret body of law being created by the FISA court, The New York Times reports that “in one of the court’s most important decisions, the judges have expanded the use in terrorism cases … Continue reading
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Tagged FISA, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, justice, law, politics, privacy, Railway Labor Executives' Association, Supreme Court of the United States, Thurgood Marshall, United States, United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
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Rand Paul staffer: Whites are ‘always denied fair treatment’
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Walmart Threatens To Shut Down Stores If DC Passes Living Wage Bill
By Aviva Shen Walmart fought hard to persuade DC residents to let it open stores in the district. But now the retail giant is threatening to walk away from three planned sites if the DC City Council passes a “living wage” … Continue reading
Does it matter that a black judge leads America’s secret court?
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Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) foce fed under Guantanamo Bay Standards
This video is horrifying! Even though the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay did commit a horrible crime and are on a hunger strike, this example of force feeding can also be considered a form of torture. This video is not for … Continue reading
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Tagged Force-feeding, Guantánamo Bay, Hunger strike, Mos Def, Ramadan, Yasiin Bey
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David Brooks’ bigoted rant
By David Sirota Since when did the New York Times get into the business of publishing old-school bigoted rants deriding whole populations and cultures as cognitively incapacitated? This is a pressing question considering David Brooks’ stunning column today on the … Continue reading
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Tagged commentary, David Brooks, David Sirota, Democracy, discrimination, Egypt, minorities, New York Times
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A Quiet American Epidemic
By Marian Wright Edelman Thirteen-year-old Michael Graham, an eighth grader at Henry H. Wells Middle School in Brewster, New York, was popular with his classmates and played football, basketball, and lacrosse. But this year on January 14th, Michael committed suicide … Continue reading
The 10 most dangerous places to be a woman in America
By Katie McDonough Lately, the preferred strategy for reproductive rights opponents in the United States seems to be: If you can’t beat Roe v. Wade, then simply regulate around it. Whether it’s the newly imposed 72-hour waiting period for women … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, North Dakota, roe v wade, South Dakota, Texas, TRAP law, United States, violence against women, Virginia
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Last Week in Poverty: The Unfinished March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
By Greag Kaufmann “[African-Americans] must march from the rat-infested, overcrowded ghettos to decent, wholesome, unrestricted residential areas disbursed throughout our cities…. They must march from the play areas in crowded and unsafe streets to the newly opened areas in the … Continue reading
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Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free…
By Russell Simmons Like so many people across the country, I have followed the murder trial of George Zimmerman very closely. As we enter what is probably the last week of the trial, I am sure that everyone is anxious … Continue reading →