I wanted to take moment to reply to Kevin Williamson’s Case Against Reparations.

On Thursday, June 12, 2014, Brazil will play the opening game of the World Cup against Croatia. The World Cup brings together 32 teams from all corners of the world.

Mass street protests are usually seen as a hallmark of democratic aspirations. And elections are meant to be a culmination of such aspirations, affording people the opportunity to choose their own leaders and system of government. But in country after country these days, the hallmarks of democracy are being dangerously subverted and co-opted by powerful elites. The question is, are we recognizing what is happening under our noses? Three examples unfolding right now are indicators of this trend: Thailand, Ukraine and Egypt.
Seven years ago, when I told my mom I wanted to make a film to help end America’s War on Drugs, she asked me, with a look of some concern, whether I was ever going to make a feel good film.

In her eulogy to the beloved and distinguished actor, playwright and activist Ossie Davis, Maya Angelou tells us that “when great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder”…
Gwen Moore does not seem like anybody’s idea of a corporate stooge. The Milwaukee Democrat, a single mom who once survived on welfare, has sponsored efforts to boost public housing, reproductive freedom, food-stamp benefits, Social Security payments, environmental protection, veterans’ benefits, and the minimum wage. And that’s just in the past year.
Before getting into quite why Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance—a book which argues, among other things, that Jews possess a genetic “adaptation to capitalism”—is racist, it may be worth thinking back to the summer of 2012. Viewers of the BBC’s coverage of the Olympics on August 10 would have been surprised, between heats in the 200 metres, by a short video explaining how the slave trade made black people into better athletes: