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The Unsolvable Question of Gun Violence
Jeremy Barnes has been haunted by gun violence since 1994. He wishes for all who can make a difference to grab a case of beer, build a campfire, and work it out. Here is his story. — By the time I’d...
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Hundreds of Californians Rally Against Oil Trains
Oil trains are an environmental concern. — Hundreds of people from around California went to San Luis Obispo on February 4 to urge the county Planning Commission to reject Phillips 66 Company’s...
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Fellow Gun Enthusiasts: Do We Really Feel Safer With More Guns?
This life-long gun enthusiast and former police officer wants us to question our assumptions about what keeps people safe. We shouldn’t have to feel like we’re going to war, he says, every time we...
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Flash Mobs, Economic Sustainability, Renewed Prosperity, and a Mayor’s...
Embed from Getty Images — Close your eyes. Imagine that you are a French national and Founder and CEO of a software corporation headquartered in Saint-Herblain, France which provides products and...
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Why Isn’t Anyone Telling On White People?
Embed from Getty Images — I’m really disappointed in people of color right now. We need to be doing a lot more to ensure the safety of the public. The last time I checked, nearly every one of us has a...
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Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA [Video and Call for Submissions]
— RSVP for Political Activism Calls Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and The NRA (2016) tells the stories of how guns, and the billions made off of them, affect the lives of everyday Americans. . ....
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He Draws Someone Every Time He Takes Public Transport
Writer Yero Timi-Biu used the drawings as a jumping off point for a spoken word piece on the way that public transport both brings together and pushes apart people from every different kind of...
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[bike] swarm
— As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, and the hazards of traffic less dangerous. Imagine that as...
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We’re Failing Kids and We’re Failing Cops
Police officers get called on to do a lot of different things. They direct traffic, act as family mediators, take reports for stolen lawn gnomes, and occasionally get shot at. It is absurd that we...
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Without a Pandemic Safety Net, Immigrants Living in U.S. Fall Through the Cracks
By LJ Dawson Ana’s 9-year-old son was the first in the family to come down with symptoms that looked like covid-19 last March. Soon after, the 37-year-old unauthorized immigrant and three of her...
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Ouch! Needle-Phobic People Scarred by So Many Images of COVID Shots
By Julie Appleby Each night it’s the same. Story after story on the TV news is about the covid vaccination effort, and they are all illustrated with footage of needles sinking into exposed upper...
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Maybe Abolishment Isn’t Such a Bad Idea
I’m a proponent of defunding the police. As it turns out, a lot of people are (even if they don’t understand the term). It’s a practical, straight-forward, very doable process, which would lead to...
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Stopping Violence Without the Police
Most conversations around defunding the police will inevitably produce someone saying that without cops, violent crime will overwhelm everything. But, as it turns out, there are lots of ways to...
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What Does Approval of the Pfizer Vaccine for Teens and Preteens Mean for My...
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News Q: The federal government approved the Pfizer vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds. What does this mean for my child? Extending the emergency use of the...
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The Police Are a Public Safety Threat
It wouldn’t have been too long ago that the idea of abolishing the police would have seemed completely ridiculous to me. Even defunding the police wouldn’t have made sense in my head. We need the...
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COVID Fears Keep Many Latino Kids Out of Classrooms
By Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News EAST LOS ANGELES — For the past year, 13-year-old twins Ariel Jr. and Abraham Osorio have logged on to their online classes from their parents’ flower shop....
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Red State, Blue State, Twin Outbreak
By Rae Ellen Bichell WHEATLAND, Wyo. — Brandon Graves said covid-19 arrived in Wheatland the way new movies do in this High Plains farming town: months after hitting the big cities and without much...
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Calling for Police Reform Is Dangerous
There is a major disconnect going on in the national conversation around policing. That disconnect is the role of the police in society. News publications report on policing as though the goal of the...
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Progressives Aren’t Denying Crime
I’ve been studying crime for almost two decades now and there’s one thing that I’m very familiar with: people lying about crime. I thought about hedging that and considering the possibility that...
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Pandemic Life in a City
By Jackie Lam, Dan Shepard and Pearly Huang Editorial Note: The content of this article is based on the author’s opinions and recommendations alone. It may not have been previewed, commissioned or...
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