(John Lewis) John Lewis is suing Joe Biden. Lewis is the Georgia Congressman who as a young man was bludgeoned and tear-gassed by Alabama State Troopers breaking up a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. Erika Andiola is also suing Joe Biden. Andiola is an Arizona State University graduate in her twenties who was brought […]

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David Brooks put down his bong a long time ago: For a little while in my teenage years, my friends and I smoked marijuana. It was fun. I have some fond memories of us all being silly together. I think those moments of uninhibited frolic deepened our friendships. But then we all sort of moved […]

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(William Barber, lower right with red sash | Source: Raleigh News & Observer)   The Moral Monday Movement (or the Historic Thousands on Jones Street Coalition) registered with the national media last year when it turned out more than 10,000 protesters at the North Carolina State Capitol, in response to extreme measures enacted by Republican […]

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I had a good laugh when I saw The New York Times story last week with the headline: “Members of Jewish Student Group Test Permissible Discussion On Israel.” The piece told of the decision by the Hillel Jewish student society at Swarthmore College to break with the national organization over its ban on discussions of […]

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Economic inequality, we suspect, may have crept into more conversations in 2013 than ever before. But people aren’t just talking about how unequal we’ve become. They’re talking about antidotes to the avarice all around us. We’ve assembled out of those discussions a list that samples 2013′s most promising and provocative inequality-busting ideas, proposals, and campaigns. […]

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