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Scholar John McWhorter Suggests a New Approach To Racial Issues
In this JOURNAL, scholar John McWhorter weighs in on whether the U.S. is “a nation of cowards” when it comes to discussing racial issues, as Attorney General Eric Holder suggested. This episode also...
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Guantánamo II? Worries About Detainees in Bagram Prison
Afghan detainees are seen through mesh wire fence inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan in 2011. Afghan and U.S. military officials have signed a deal to transfer...
View ArticleNeil Barofsky on S&P’s $5 Billion Penalty
In the years leading up to the 2008 financial meltdown, the Department of Justice says that the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s inflated credit ratings, which led to huge losses among...
View Article“Mr. Blasty Goes to Washington”
Political cartoonist Mark Fiore brings back Blasty the Drone. This time, Fiore’s targeting Rand Paul’s filibuster and President Obama’s drone war at home and abroad. The post “Mr. Blasty Goes to...
View Article“Snuggly the Security Bear”
Snuggly the Security Bear is working with the Department of Justice and Eric Holder. See what they’ve been up to lately as they fight press freedom– er, terrorism. The post “Snuggly the Security Bear”...
View ArticleWhy the DOJ’s AP Action Threatens Press Freedom
Photo: Dale Robbins Moyers & Company’s Gina Kim sat down with Danielle Brian, the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, to discuss the Justice Department’s decision to seize...
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A Grim Report on Press Freedoms Under Obama
This article first appeared at The Nation. This photograph taken Thursday, June 6, 2013 in Washington, D.C., shows a copy of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order requiring Verizon to...
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DOJ to Schools: Stop Sending Kids to Jail for Breaking the Rules
This post first appeared at ThinkProgress. “A routine school disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal’s office, not in a police precinct.” — Eric HolderThe Department of Justice...
View ArticleMorning Reads: Putin Gives Unhinged Presser; Paul Ryan’s Misleading Poverty...
Good morning! Today is the 244th anniversary of the Boston Massacre. Winston Churchill also delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech on this date in 1946. In newer news, here are our Morning Reads…. Ukraine...
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Rand Paul Has a Race Problem
This video frame grab provided by Senate Television shows Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) speaking on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Senate...
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The Way to Stop Corporate Lawbreaking is to Prosecute the People Who Break...
General Motors CEO Mary Barra addresses employees at the automaker's vehicle engineering center in Warren, Michigan on Thursday, June 5, 2014. Barra said 15 employees have been fired and five others...
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On Civil Rights Anniversary, the Bipartisan Push to Revive Voting Rights Act...
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) addresses supporters and volunteers at his runoff election victory party on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at the Mississippi Children's Museum in Jackson, Mississippi. (AP...
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Eric Holder’s Voting Rights Legacy
This post first appeared at The Nation. US Attorney General Eric Holder, left, with Congressman John Lewis, (D-GA) attended the 44th anniversary of the Voting Rights March in Selma, Alabama in 2009....
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Going Easy on Eric Holder’s Wall Street Inaction
Attorney General Eric Holder, left, with Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)...
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How Ferguson Uses Cops and the Courts to Prey on Its Residents
This post first appeared at The Nation. Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson is surrounded by his officers as he leaves a news conference in Forestwood Park on Friday, August 15, 2014. Jackson took...
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The Legal System Uses an Algorithm That’s Biased Against Blacks to Predict...
This post originally appeared at Mother Jones. On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her godsister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle...
View ArticleA Grim Report on Press Freedoms Under Obama
The Committee to Protect Journalists says this administration is the least accessible to journalists in decades. Continue reading The post A Grim Report on Press Freedoms Under Obama appeared first on...
View ArticleDOJ to Schools: Stop Sending Kids to Jail for Breaking the Rules
The Department of Justice issued new guidance Wednesday aimed at curbing harsh, discriminatory over-punishment of school discipline violations. Continue reading The post DOJ to Schools: Stop Sending...
View ArticleMorning Reads: Putin Gives Unhinged Presser; Paul Ryan’s Misleading Poverty...
A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading The post Morning Reads: Putin Gives Unhinged Presser; Paul Ryan’s Misleading Poverty Report...
View ArticleRand Paul Has a Race Problem
Rand Paul's blinkered vision will make it almost impossible for him to grapple with how racial resentment fuels support for the libertarian politics he fervently espouses. Continue reading The post...
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