All I Ever Wanted Was a Cheeseburger

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Growing up Orthodox Jewish in Houston, Texas in the 1950s and ’60s, the mixing of dairy and meat was forbidden.

Who Is Greater?

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What makes someone like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev vulnerable to radicalization? A Muslim American parent of two young men asks a question that strikes close to home.

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Spoon Jackson welcomes Spring with the declaration that “There is still beauty in cell bars.”

Parables of Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Rev. Matthew Westfox

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What do the Bible and Jesus Christ have to say about a woman’s right to choose?

What the 2013 State of the Union Means for Men

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Policy-heavy speech addresses several key issues for American men.

Sergeants’ Initiation

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Newly minted sergeants under surprise attack in Vietnam must act on their own authority for survival.

The Disposability of Black Men

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Black men are brutally murdered and systematically incarcerated. Is this genocide?

A Reverence for Reproductive Justice

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Rev. Matthew Westfox appears on MSNBC to talk about Christianity and reproductive rights.

The Boiling Point of Aaron Swartz’s Suicide

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Has Aaron Swartz’s death exposed state corruption?

After 40 Years, North Carolina’s “Wilmington 10″ Are Finally Pardoned

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North Carolina governor calls the convictions ‘tainted by naked racism.’

This Thanksgiving, Try Accountability With Your Turkey

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Jamie Utt challenges us to remember that Thanksgiving isn’t just a time to give thanks, but also a time to remember the atrocities committed against the indigenous nations of North America and help make change along side them.

“A good friend of mine sexually assaulted a woman that was a member of our mutual friends.”

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This is a comment by Anonymous on the post “I Know Who You Raped Last Summer”.

“Before his suicide, my grandson asked me if Amherst would have handled the assault differently if he was female.”

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This is a comment by Martin Robbins on the post “The Death of Innocence at Amherst College”.

Prison-Industrial Complex News

I swear I’ll come up with original content one of these days… Did you know that in America state spending on corrections is growing six times faster than state spending on higher education? It’s true! Because when you look at America, one of the things you say is “dammit, we need more prisons and fewer colleges, that [...]

Strange Fruit

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Jackie Summers asks us to ignore, for a moment, the fact that threatening the life of a president is treason.

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Do You Think I’m Something?

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Donald D’Haene is a capital-F Feminist because of his mother’s life.