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Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime
Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.
Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide
While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnestys report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isnt.
Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight
When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the countrys national newspapers, its a conflict writ large as can or should be.
Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict
A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called exceptional in every sense of the term.
Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting
Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actorsbut how does it affect states, communities, people?
Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018)
If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.
Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for Trump
We talk about what just happened, and corporate medias role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIRs editor Jim Naureckas.
Nicole Foy on Immigration and Labor
News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a crisis, with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.
Shawn Musgrave, Orion Danjuma on Vote Fraud Hoax as Voter Suppression
Trumps Big Lie attorneys are not so much returning to the field, but actually never left.
Chip Gibbons on Gaza First Amendment Alert
Defending Rights & Dissent has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday.