Category Archives: Politics

Prisons In America: Incarceration as Political Philosophy

In the second installment of this 2-part series, Sean Beaudoin and Meg Worden discuss the prison system in America, looking at the Prison Industrial Complex as a highly intentional system of control, as well as a rarely-examined political philosophy. Continue reading

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Prisons in America: One Woman’s Story

In this 2-part discussion, Sean Beaudoin and Meg Worden take an unsparing look at the American Incarceration Complex. Continue reading

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Dr. Ben Carson Isn’t God, He Just Plays One on TV

Forget the Holocaust, forget Dr. Ben Carson’s opinions on gun control: any physician who is willing to write a memoir called Gifted Hands and speak of himself performing “miracles” needs to be looked on as an out-of-touch megalomaniac. We in the medical field should have all seen this coming. Continue reading

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Report from The Front: Berkeley, CA

From Emmett Till to Berkeley CA, Judy Juanita on how America’s most liberal city still channels racism. Continue reading

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The Case for Hillary

Barack and Bernie, Biden and Benghazi, Warren and Whitewater…meh. Why every progressive American should be backing Hillary Rodham Clinton. Continue reading

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Meet the Presidential Candidates! (In Bad Haiku)

The men and women / Running for highest office / Warts, haiku, and all. Continue reading

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WILDFIRE IN THE AMERICAN WEST AND THE FAST TRACK TO OBLIVION

Danbert Nobacon takes on global warming, wildfires, and the possibility that there’s some human complicity. Continue reading

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