Reposted from the Shoulder To Shoulder Campaign ——– Among the many gifts with which humanity has been imbued, none are as worthy of our awe and gratitude as the seemingly boundless capacity with which man, woman and child can adapt… Read More ›
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What Do We Tell Our Children? Explaining The Ray Tensing Mistrial
The recent mistrial in the case against former University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing for the murder of Sam Dubose is certainly not the first instance of a grave miscarriage of justice involving the shooting of an unarmed, noncombative… Read More ›
Derelict In Their Duty: The Media’s Role In The Rise Of Trump
Nothing but wires and lights in a box…that was the prognosis given to television broadcasting in a speech by Edward R. Murrow 58 years ago unless the medium forgave the wiggling lure of profit for the yeoman’s work of informing… Read More ›
Extremism Begets Extremism: Why The GOP’s Fear Mongering Around Terrorism Makes Everyone Less Safe
Against my better judgement, and any consideration of my mental wellbeing, I have watched virtually every minute of this year’s Republican National Convention.What I have seen has not disappointed so far as spectacle is concerned, but has managed to calcify… Read More ›
Let These Women Glow: Help Tiwale Build An Education Center For Women In Malawi
It is not coincidence that movements of social change are usually born on the backs of the young. The old saying may have it that with age comes wisdom, but with the knowledge gleaned from a lifetime’s experience comes a… Read More ›
Race Based Red Baiting: Why The Right Wing Pegs President Obama As A Communist
Over the past 7 years, the splenetic rage that has been nurtured by the political right in America against President Obama has splintered off into a number of separate, but not mutually exclusive, strands that highlight the various issues driving… Read More ›
The Pro-Life Paradox: Can A State’s Views on Abortion Predict The Health Of Its Citizens?
When does a human life begin? At first glance it would seem like, given the myriad advances in science’s understanding of human reproductive biology in modern times, a simple question that should have a concrete answer. However, ask a dozen… Read More ›
Chief Wahoo’s Curse: How the Cleveland Indians Went From Breaking Racial Barriers To Just Being Racist
1948 was a pretty amazing year to be a sports fan in Cleveland. The newly formed Cleveland Browns had just rattled off a perfect 14-0 season on their way to a third All-America Football Conference championship in three years, the… Read More ›
The Dead Are Always Drug-Free: Why An Abstinence-Only Approach Will Never End The Heroin Epidemic
Heroin is not alcohol. This might seem like a fairly obvious and even ridiculous point to make, but there are so many people in our courts, our governments, our treatment centers and our recovery communities who don’t seem to grasp this… Read More ›
The Curious Case of The Bat In Southern Guinea: Why We Still Don’t Know How The Ebola Outbreak Started
Imagine, for a moment, that the United States is being ravaged by a mysterious and deadly virus. This virus—let’s call it the Stanley Virus—is believed to have first appeared a little less than a year ago in a community somewhere… Read More ›
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