Social Justice
I think many of us have often asked, when we saw someone being bullied as a child, what would make that person decide whether to lash out and become a bully themselves, or
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March 20, 2017 // 0 Comments
Yet again, I’m called upon to redress strawmen, because unfortunately many reasonable people seem, against all efforts to the contrary, to hear something that those of us
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March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
For far too many women across the world, enduring street harassment is a fact of life. From getting catcalled to groped to followed home, there’s a good chance that even if
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March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
Arizona resident Guadalupe “Lupita” Garcia de Rayos made headlines late last week as the possible first person deported under President Trump’s recent
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February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments
The National Football League (NFL) boasts almost 1,700 players and, unsurprisingly, every player is male. Some professional sports in the United States have a women’s
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February 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
Nearly 8 years ago, one of then-newly-inaugurated US president Barack Obama’s earliest executive orders reversed the global gag rule, a rule banning non-governmental
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January 31, 2017 // 1 Comment
On the last day of 2016, it was almost 6 in the evening in New York City, 3 pm in Los Angeles, and 11 pm in London. Helsinki and Cape Town had just finished ringing in the
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January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
In Arabic, the curse “go to Gaza” is synonymous with “go to hell.” Indeed, The Gaza Strip, with its long history of military conflict and economic difficulty,
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November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
We live in an individualistic society. And we believe that people are individually and personally responsible for their own fate. We enact our laws that way. We create our
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September 26, 2016 // 0 Comments
When things start going awry in a country, it becomes all too easy to blame vulnerable populations, and it helps when these populations are shrouded in mystery (read:
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September 19, 2016 // 0 Comments
