Can there be a New Left Party?
Red Pepper (UK)
Where can we turn politically? Who is on our side, to fight for an alternative?
Where Are They Now?
GoComics
'By the Grace of God': How Workers Survive on $7.25 Per Hour
In Plain Sight, NBC News
Meet Crystal Dupont and John White. Both are struggling to live on minimum wage, one at the start of her career and the other toward the end of his.
Bottom-Up Morality: We're Not Good Because of God
NPR
In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our species. Rather than coming to us top-down from God, or any other external source, morality for de Waal springs bottom-up from our emotions and our day-to-day social interactions, which themselves evolved from foundations in animal societies.
How to Read Stories About Israel in the NY Times (Hint: Very Carefully)
FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Some days the Newspaper of Record says a lot–not always in ways you might expect.
Groundbreaking African Novelist Chinua Achebe Dies
The Guardian
Nigerian author recognised for key role in developing African literature has died in Boston, where he was working as a professor
Friday Nite Videos -- March 22, 2013
Tina Fey IS Sarah Palin! Again! * Gun Shop: Why We Need More Guns * A 12-Year-Old's Letter to Justice Roberts on Marriage Equality * The International Arms Trade Treaty * The Trouble I've Seen: Reviving 'Cold' Civil Rights Killings * Dying Iraq War Veteran Explains His Decision to End His Life
Iraq Veteran Explains His Decision to End His Life
In the week marking the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Democracy Now! looks at the remarkable life and imminent death of Iraq War veteran Tomas Young. Citing his overwhelming physical pain from wounds that left him paralyzed in Iraq, Young recently announced he has decided to end his life by discontinuing his medicine and nourishment.
The Trouble I've Seen
Featuring the work of Northeastern University School of Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), "The Trouble I've Seen" follows the investigations of three harrowing civil rights cold cases. Founded by Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ takes on cases that both horrify us and beg us to correct the record, to search for reconciliation and remediation for families and communities that even decades later shudder in the shadows of bigotry and injustice. "The Trouble I've Seen" is narrated by Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP. (Thanks to Linda Burnham for this link -- video moderator.)
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