Monday, September 8, 2014

RSN: When Whites Just Don't Get It, Father Hears Son Dying in Ohio Wal-Mart Shooting




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Nicholas Kristof | When Whites Just Don't Get It
Nicholas Kristof. (photo: Pelzie)
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
Kristof writes: "In my column a week ago, 'When Whites Just Don’t Get It,' I took aim at what I called 'smug white delusion' about race relations in America, and readers promptly fired back at what they perceived as a smugly deluded columnist."
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Bush-Era Memos: President Can Wiretap Americans at All Times
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "The US Justice Department has released two memos detailing the George W. Bush administration's legal justification for monitoring the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant."
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Father Hears Son Dying in Ohio Wal-Mart Shooting
Associated Press
Excerpt: "The father of a man fatally shot by police at an Ohio Wal-Mart says a cellphone call in which he said he heard his son's dying breaths keeps replaying in his head."
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An 11 Year-Old Puts Ferguson in Perspective
Jason Rosenbaum, National Public Radio
Rosenbaum writes: "Only a couple dozen people showed up to the council meeting. Three spoke during the public comment section. One was Marquis Govan. He lowered the microphone to match his 11-year-old height before speaking."
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Why Can't Obama Fix the World?
David Remnick, The New Yorker
Remnick writes: "Obama, who prides himself on late-night preparation, unshakable rationality, and a writerly ear, is compiling an anthology of botched pronouncements that have, at best, muddied his intentions."
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Economic Inequality, Not Race, Will Likely Seal the Next Election
Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast
Kotkin writes: "Yet in reality, race will not define the 2014 election, or likely those that follow. Instead the real defining issue-class-does not fit so easily into the current political calculus."
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As Keystone Awaits Fate, Other Tar Sands Projects Move Forward
Peter Moskowitz, Al Jazeera America
Moskowitz writes: "The federal government has quietly approved major tar sands transportation projects with unstudied environmental effects -managing to circumvent the executive branch’s impact analysis that paralyzed development of the Keystone XL pipeline and bolstered activists’ claims that the project is dangerous and damaging to the environment."
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