All Views Articles for 2015-11-21
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Christian Christensen People Click on Stories About Paris But Not Beirut? It’s More Than Geography and Apathy. I’m seeing some push-back from journalists over criticism that Paris was covered more than Beirut. Places like Beirut are covered, journalists respond, but people just aren’t as interested in those... Read more |
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Kiratiana Freelon Fighting Poverty, Plagued by Violence: Why 10,000 Black Women in Brazil Marched for Their Rights Black women from all over Brazil, of different backgrounds, education and socioeconomic status, came together to protest widespread inequality. Read more |
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Monia Mazigh Why is France Emulating the U.S.? Everybody seems to speak French this week, love France and sympathize with the French. "Empathy" is now a French word. Even the British, long-time enemies of the French people, forgot about their... Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Cutting Through the Helplessness of the Refugee Crisis Fences. Barbed wire. Plexiglass riot shields. Refugee camps. Unanswered questions. Terror. Roiling seas in flimsy boats. Waiting. Fear. Walking. Huddled in wet, cold fields with no shelter and no... Read more |
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Anthony D. Romero States of Fear Fear is toxic to a democracy. Fear divides. Fear overreacts. Fear discriminates. It's a lesson we've learned throughout our history, from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 to the imprisonment of... Read more |
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Peter Van Buren US Special Forces in Combat: Nothing New for Iraq and Syria? The United States recently unveiled a new approach in Iraq and Syria it insists is not new at all: Special Forces will be sent into direct combat. “The fact is that our strategy… hasn’t changed,”... Read more |
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Dave Johnson Shouldn’t Social Security Recipients Get A CEO-Sized Raise? CEOs got an average 3.9 percent pay increase last year. This increase is subsidized by taxpayers because corporations can deduct it as an expense. Meanwhile, America’s struggling seniors will receive... Read more |