Category: Legal Affairs
Death and Texas
by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2013 | Legal Affairs(Click image to enlarge) The good news regarding capital punishment is that 21 countries carried out executions in 2012, the same number as the previous year but down from 28 countries 10 years earlier. The top five (the U.S. is No. 5) executed 682 people, excluding the uncounted thousands executed in China. “Those five countries […]
Class Action
by Nikole Hannah-Jones | Jun 24, 2013 | Economy, Legal AffairsAffirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over how to solve them. Great numbers of Americans support the overarching goals of assuring equal access to educational opportunity and maintaining racial diversity in the country’s institutions of higher learning. At the same time, polls show […]
In Wake of Woolwich Murder, Islamophobia Is the New Fascism
by Richard Sudan | Jun 12, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Legal AffairsIn late May, two British men of Nigerian descent hacked to death British soldier Lee Rigby in full view of witnesses in the Woolwich district of London. The assailants, who are awaiting trial, claimed to have avenged the killing of Muslims by British military. No reasonable person could possibly justify Rigby’s horrific death. No one. That simply […]
Arthur Goldwag: A Bad Day for Jason Richwine Is a Good Day for His White Nationalist Editor
by Arthur Goldwag | May 15, 2013 | Legal Affairs, Media(Last week, Jason Richwine resigned from the Heritage Foundation after, among other things, it was revealed he wrote for a white supremacy publication called AlternativeRight, edited by Richard Spencer, above. Arthur Goldwag reported from a 2011 conference in which Spencer’s National Policies Institute released a report entitled “The Majority Strategy: Why the GOP Must Win White […]
Pentagon Reports More Men Than Women Victims of Sexual Assault — and ‘Manosphere’ Is Quiet
by Arthur Goldwag | May 10, 2013 | Legal Affairs, Politics(Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel answered questions after a Pentagon report showed a sharp increase in sexual assaults in the military. The AP called it an “epidemic.” Image source: AP) Which gender suffers most from sexism and sexual predation? Ask a policeman or a social worker; delve into the social science literature and the answer […]
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