Tumblr of the Day: Beyonce Voters
A great new tumblr, pairing pictures of inspiring progressive female politicians like Hillary Clinton, Wendy Davis and Elizabeth Warren with Beyonce lyrics. Also featuring are Supreme Court...
Category: Politics
Water is a Human Right: Detroit Turns Off the Faucets On Poor People
It's not easy to explain what is going on in Detroit right now. The city is in the depths of complicated bankruptcy proceedings to solve financial situation that goes back decades, and is currently...
Russia’s NATO Fears
In a muscular speech on March 18th before a joint session of the Russian parliament announcing the annexation of Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked a deep sense of grievance about the...
Does Hashtag Activism Actually Work?
On April 14 about 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist organisation in Nigeria. The girls, committing the heinous crime of desiring an education, were taken by the Islamist...
Hobby Lobby and Buffer Zones: The Supreme Court’s Attack on Women
The Supreme Court dealt a one-two punch to women’s rights this week, first striking down the buffer zones surrounding reproductive health clinics and then affirming Hobby Lobby’s ‘right’ to...
The Obvious Child Ad Controversy: Why is Abortion Still a Taboo Subject on TV?
More than 40 years after Roe v Wade, how is abortion still a taboo subject on television? Most networks dance around it as though they’re afraid the world will collapse if abortion is discussed,...
Housing Children With Adults: Ireland’s Mental Health Shame
The child rights spotlight is firmly on Ireland at the moment. The latest harrowing news is that, in 2013, eighty-three children were placed in adult psychiatric units. The Code of Practice Relating...
Capitalism: It’s just not that into you.
The United States is eager to show the world that it is experiencing a craft revolution; a rebirth of the artisanal, the local, and hand-crafted, and the individual is flooding store shelves,...
#YesAllWomen: A Call to Action Against Misogyny
I spent all day Saturday participating in the #YesAllWomen tag, which was created in response to the Isla Vista shooting blamed on Elliot Rodgers. I woke up the next morning to discover that my...
Why We Ignore Male Terrorism: On the Santa Barbara shootings
The sounds of what I am told is a gun rally pound against the windows of my hotel room in Madison, Wisconsin, as I write. A man’s angry voice, distorted by amplification, and the sounds of a...