Social Justice
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
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
In interactions on everything from the gender wage gap to racial inequalities and gaps in representation, I often get asked some version of the question, “When will you be
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January 31, 2017 // 0 Comments
With a new Republican majority, those of us who care about the poor are steeling for a new round of cuts to benefits. To his credit, Trump didn’t run
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January 24, 2017 // 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
Income inequality Countries with bigger income differences tend to have much lower economic mobility. Although there is more flexibility in the middle, those at the top can
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September 5, 2016 // 0 Comments
A week ago, a white supremacist walked into a South Carolina church and murdered nine black churchgoers. In the wake of this hate-crime, there has been a lot of strong
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July 1, 2015 // 0 Comments
Just over two years after shaking up the city of Boston, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received his sentencing for participating with his now deceased brother in the 2013 Boston Marathon
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May 19, 2015 // 0 Comments
The stage is set for the legalization of marijuana, that mysterious plant getting the nation into a great, big frenzy of sorts. There are sharks on the prowl, fish swimming,
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April 27, 2015 // 0 Comments