The Constitution is important. Full stop. It does many things, chief among them being defining and protecting the rights of people in the United
Category: Civil Rights
De-naturalization: Trump’s latest weapon in the war on immigrants
The Trump administration is employing a new weapon in its war on immigrants: de-naturalization. Yes, that’s a real word. It’s exactly what it sounds
Red Hen Incident reminds us of the wisdom of Michelle Obama’s words – “When they go low, we go high”
Is it understandable that the frustration of living in a world with the duplicity of Donald Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and others would want
The hostage crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border
The Trump administration is holding children hostage. They can call it “family separation.” They can say that it’s meant as a “deterrent” to illegal
“Xenophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist.” Who, me?
When you’re running for a school board position in suburban St. Louis and tweet out memes about banning Islam in America, what could possibly
Conservatives and the Old Confederacy have Credibility Gap
It should not surprise us that Judge Roy Moore supporters and others on the extreme right have taken to lambasting the Washington Post. When
Really, all we can do is fixate on a flag and an anthem?
So, we are largely a nation of test-takers rather than critical thinkers. This can tell you a lot about the obsession so many have
The View From The Tower
If you were looking for a hackneyed and inelegant metaphor for privilege and inequality, the building I work in would be an excellent choice.
DEA says “no” to Trump’s remarks on rough treatment of suspects
The acting chief of the Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA] is not pleased with Donald Trump’s remarks to law enforcement officers, telling them not to
The battle within between dispassion and empathy
I had been planning on writing yet another article decrying the afflictive double standard and dog whistle politics of the term “terrorism.” Saturday, thousands