News
Her cry from inside the occupation: Janna Jihad is a voice for Palestinian children
Sounds of explosives reverberate in the background of the video posted to Facebook on April 20, 2018. A young girl standing outside a Palestinian village as others scurry around her speaks Arabic into the camera before switching to English. “From here, as you can see, occupation Israeli soldiers were just hiding in the garage,” she…
Ex-KKK leaders: Trump is the president we dreamed of
In the early morning hours of July 14, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to lash out at four progressive congresswomen of color known as “The Squad,” telling them to “go back” to their “crime infested” countries. Trump denied that his tweets about the congresswomen, all U.S. citizens, were racist, but people familiar with white…
Could gun buybacks reduce crime in America? So far: No
Americans own nearly half of the world’s guns, with approximately 120 firearms for every 100 U.S. residents. Gun control policies may someday restrict new gun sales. But what impact can they have when Americans already own millions of guns? Some have pointed to gun buybacks as a potential solution to this problem. I have spent…
How Trump incites violence: Understanding stochastic terrorism
Three years ago, on Aug. 9, 2016, Rolling Stone magazine published an article by Drexel University Law Professor David Cohen on stochastic terrorism and the messaging coming from the Trump campaign. At the time, stochastic terrorism was a relatively obscure academic term, but his column helped propel it into today’s lexicon, and recent events have…
Street Roots is bringing people together to celebrate 20 years
Harry Richards draws people as they dream themselves to be, he explained to me. The longtime Street Roots vendor opened up his notebook to an image. “This guy wanted to be a cloud,” Harry said. “So I turned him into a cloud.” He flipped the pages to other drawings – dragons, a tree, a pirate. …
Environment
Urgent: Climate-driven migration demands local planning now
Cities, counties and states need a public planning process, including stakeholders, to mitigate the coming mass migration crisis. This is a challenge of character. We cannot rely on a humane response from federal officials. Described below are reasons the need is urgent. The arctic ice cap and glaciers worldwide are melting. The oceans and atmosphere…
Forest Service proposes gutting public review
People concerned about the environmental impact of resource extractions and other federal actions have until Monday, Aug. 12, to voice their concerns about a proposal that could essentially eliminate public review of public forest management. The forestry watchdog group Bark says the proposed changes would create loopholes to increase the speed and scale of resource…
Opinion
Urgent: Climate-driven migration demands local planning now
Cities, counties and states need a public planning process, including stakeholders, to mitigate the coming mass migration crisis. This is a challenge of character. We cannot rely on a humane response from federal officials. Described below are reasons the need is urgent. The arctic ice cap and glaciers worldwide are melting. The oceans and atmosphere…
Culture
Nick Offerman: Rural roots, good manners helped make him a star
Nick Offerman, who played Ron Swanson on the hit sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” reflects on the unexpected advantages of being the only guy at the audition who looked like he could carry a bale of hay, and much more: I grew up with my three siblings in a farm family in Illinois. My mom and…
