Obama failed to specify that his enthusiasm for mothers is strictly limited to American moms.
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Riots and Results
View image | gettyimages.com Yesterday, I wrote about how the explanation Baltimore police gave for the death of Freddie Gray was almost impossible to believe, and apparently, state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby felt the same way after her investigation, because she announced today that she is charging six officers with crimes ranging from negligence to second-degree […]
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The Baltimore Police Department’s Extraordinary Explanation for Why Freddie Gray Is Dead
View image | gettyimages.com I can only imagine the kind of siege mentality that prevails within the Baltimore Police Department right now. Not only are the city’s residents protesting daily (and on one night those protests turned violent), but reporters from around the country are now examining the force’s less-than-stellar record when it comes to […]
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How Government Policies Cemented the Racism that Reigns in Baltimore
A century of federal, state, and local policies have quarantined Charm City’s black population in isolated slums.
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The Fight for LGBT Equality is Not Over
Indiana’s ‘religious freedom’ law is just one of dozens of state-level bills that could allow LGBT discrimination.
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It Turns Out People Can Be Persuasive When They’re High
I’m fairly certain she’s a “yes” on legalization. (Flickr/Jonathan Piccolo) The Pew Research Center has a new poll out on marijuana legalization, and in many ways it’s about what you’d expect if you’ve been paying attention to public opinion on this topic lately. Overall support for legalization is at 53 percent, and young people are […]
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Raising Wages From the Bottom Up
Three ways city and state governments can make the difference.
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Why Republicans Are Getting So Spooked On Gay Rights
As I wrote yesterday on some other magazine’s web site, the conservative argument on gay rights has gone from “It’s not you, it’s me” to “It’s not me, it’s them.” After abandoning moral condemnation of gayness, the opponents of gay rights insisted that the problem wasn’t gay people themselves, it was that straight people, confronted […]
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Why the Newly Amended Indiana RFRA Is a Real—But Only Partial—Victory
View image | gettyimages.com Indiana Senate President Pro Tem David Long speaks as House Speaker Brian Bosma (R) looks on during a press conference about anti-discrimination safeguards added to the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the State Capitol April 2, 2015, in Indianapolis, Indiana. They look pretty psyched, don’t they? The Republican leadership in […]
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Marco Rubio Gets Surprisingly Specific on Indiana
View image | gettyimages.com If you’ve been watching Indiana Governor Mike Pence over the last few days as the “religious freedom” law he passed has been getting so much attention, you’ve noticed that there are many questions he really, really does not want to answer. He doesn’t want to get into specifics or hypotheticals, even […]