Tag: America
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Why you need to read The Outlaw Ocean
This morning, The New York Times published the fourth installment of The Outlaw Ocean —a wide-ranging investigation into murder, exploitation, criminal pollution of waterways, and illegal fishing across our tragedy-ridden commons: the high seas.
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Exceptionally American: The uncomfortable relationship with human rights
On Thursday, the Obama administration asserted the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights did not extend to military and intelligence officials working abroad. By repeating a script well-rehearsed by former presidents Bush and Clinton, Obama endorsed the very sentiment that has led to military abuses in the past.
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Taking Attendance: Class in America
It is this hopelessness of inequality —the acquiescence to classism— that debate ends all together