Charles Pierce
| Soul Brother Number One: Mister David Brooks on Race
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Is there any doubt in the world that, if we could all transport back to those days, David Brooks would have been the guy in the bowler hat, sitting in his vast spaces for entertaining, and selling family tour packages to the slums and souvenirs made of genuine urchin skin?"
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Is there any doubt in the world that, if we could all transport back to those days, David Brooks would have been the guy in the bowler hat, sitting in his vast spaces for entertaining, and selling family tour packages to the slums and souvenirs made of genuine urchin skin?"
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Florida High
Court to Consider Extension of Stand-Your-Ground Law
Bill Cotterell, Reuters
Cotterell writes: "An appeal before the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday could shift the burden of proof for the state's 'stand your ground' law, relieving gun owners of a legal duty to prove self-defense when they brandish weapons in violent confrontations."
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Bill Cotterell, Reuters
Cotterell writes: "An appeal before the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday could shift the burden of proof for the state's 'stand your ground' law, relieving gun owners of a legal duty to prove self-defense when they brandish weapons in violent confrontations."
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Meet the Woman
Spearheading the Federal Probe of Ferguson
Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News
Bailey writes: "Gupta has gone on to become one of the best-known civil rights attorneys in the country - leading the charge on prison reform, immigration law, police overreach and other issues."
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Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News
Bailey writes: "Gupta has gone on to become one of the best-known civil rights attorneys in the country - leading the charge on prison reform, immigration law, police overreach and other issues."
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Israel
Nationality Bill Negates Palestinian Self-Determination
Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor
Eldar writes: "At the memorial service for Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion on Nov. 27, former President Shimon Peres deviated from accepted protocol for such events. In the presence of high-ranking guests and journalists from Israel and abroad, Peres called the nationality bill 'an attempt to subjugate the Declaration of Independence to fleeting political needs.'"
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Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor
Eldar writes: "At the memorial service for Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion on Nov. 27, former President Shimon Peres deviated from accepted protocol for such events. In the presence of high-ranking guests and journalists from Israel and abroad, Peres called the nationality bill 'an attempt to subjugate the Declaration of Independence to fleeting political needs.'"
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Rebecca Solnit
| Las Vegas and the Global Casino We Call Wall Street
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
Solnit writes: "In 1989, the Mirage opened, said to be the first casino built by Wall Street - with junk-bond money - though its decor was about being in Polynesia, not Manhattan."
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Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
Solnit writes: "In 1989, the Mirage opened, said to be the first casino built by Wall Street - with junk-bond money - though its decor was about being in Polynesia, not Manhattan."
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White Cops
File Suit, Claim They Are Punished Too Much for Shooting People
Amelia Rosch, ThinkProgress
Rosch writes: "Less than a week after twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by Cleveland police officers who thought Rice's toy gun was real, nine other members of the Cleveland Police Department filed a lawsuit that accuses the department of discriminating against non-African American officers who used deadly force."
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Amelia Rosch, ThinkProgress
Rosch writes: "Less than a week after twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by Cleveland police officers who thought Rice's toy gun was real, nine other members of the Cleveland Police Department filed a lawsuit that accuses the department of discriminating against non-African American officers who used deadly force."
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Hillary
Clinton Says Fracking Carries Risks in Conservation Speech
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Goldenberg writes: "Hillary Clinton has offered mild criticism of the fracking boom that has spread across the US under Barack Obama's presidency, drawing another small distinction with his administration."
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Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Goldenberg writes: "Hillary Clinton has offered mild criticism of the fracking boom that has spread across the US under Barack Obama's presidency, drawing another small distinction with his administration."
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