Cheryl Dorsey: Research has shown that police often speak very differently to black motorists than they do to white motorists upon contact. That night was no different.
Law and Justice
Milwaukee Police Violently Confront NBA Player Over Parking Ticket
Trump, the NRA, Mass Shootings and the American Culture of Death
Bill Blum: We all know that nothing constructive will come from Trump’s safety commission. After Parkland, the best the commission could offer was the arming of teachers. In the meantime, we’ve come to embrace mass shootings as routine features of everyday life.
Terminal Velocity
I Went to Flagstaff for a Commencement
Paul Haeder: Consumerism as a psychological wedge to allow for the synchronized event horizon of finance-government-surveillance-media-military to work on the masses as a suffocating fog pumped out across the globe by an elite bent on total dominance.
Defense
Why Is It Bad News When Military Spending Declines?
WJ Astore: The sober, sane, thing to do, according to military experts, is always to expand military spending.
Rethinking Weapons Exports
Kristin Christman: What’s the use of all that science in developing weapons if there’s no science in evaluating the application of weapons to real world problems?
Progressive Culture
Why Kiefer Sutherland’s Designated Survivor Is Politically Progressive in Challenging Trump
Actor Kiefer Sutherland expressed that it wasn’t the first time he experienced an eerie connection between a show he starred in and real live events.
Feedback Friday
Feedback Friday: Model Public Banking on a Proven Model
Tom Hall: Buckminster Fuller was correct – to sell a new idea, you need a real, new model, not just the idea.
Elections & Campaigns
California’s Millennial Candidates Threaten Political Establishment
Anna Keeve: While household names and heavy hitter corporate-funded candidates are spending big bucks to make sure they are heard, there is a horde of lesser-known rising-star candidates swarming onto the political scene
Primary Day: Lessons for Democrats
RJ Eskow: Democrats should be concerned about the decline in voter participation among African Americans in 2016.
Education
County Ballot Measures Would Fund Child Care, Early Education
Jessica Goodheart: Research that shows early childhood education can profoundly impact the future success of children. But early childhood educators are still chronically underpaid.
Why Do Some People Hate College?
Steve Hochstadt: The distrust of political conservatives for intellectuals and higher education has been a feature of our politics for half a century.
Immigration Reform
Questioning Our Declaration on Human Rights
Samantha Banuelos: Before immigrants even cross the border into the United States, they are faced with situations that no human being should ever have to experience—often originating in flight from brutal cartels or corrupt armed forces.
Title: “Latina/o Immigrants in the Racist Era of Trump”
Alvaro Huerta: The “Hustler-in-Chief” lies so much, it must be difficult for him—along with his lackey apologists and fellow liars, like John F. Kelly, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, etc.—to keep track of all his lies.
California
Forget North and South Korea: California and Texas Need a Peace Summit
Joe Mathews: Regular California-Texas summits would remind us that, while we will never be the most cohesive country, we are a collection of states that requires some unity.
