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When Obama announced a review of surveillance practices, he was compelled by Snowden’s heroic actions.

Barbie, Joe, Darth Vader and making war in children’s culture.

There are over two million men and women incarcerated in the United States and most cannot afford to call their families. 

Public interest organizations say deregulating phone service providers will hurt communities of color, but major civil rights groups are still in favor.

Yes, the author was attacked on Fox News for daring to be a Muslim writing about Jesus. But does his book actually meet the historical standards he claims?

In Egypt, as well as in the West, outrage over rampant sexual assault has too often been about political agendas rather than concern for the actual victims.

The crime of the century.

The Bloomberg administration accuses a judge of bias for her rulings against the NYPD. But more judges should consider the human implications of police policies.

Obama sounds the notes of racial justice at key moments, while asserting unprecedented power to implement policies that are destructive, discriminatory—and embodied by the NYPD commissioner.

DC autonomy is now more likely than ever, and with it will come the lifting of a ban on Medicaid coverage of abortion for local women.