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May 27, 2022

The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Expanding Second Amendment Gun Rights

Andrew Cohen Brennan Center for Justice

Law professor Darrell Miller forecasts a “radical change” in the law concerning Second Amendment gun rights coming from the Court’s conservative justices.

May 27, 2022

The Love Affair Between Hollywood and the Pentagon

Alissa Wilkinson Vox

For the Pentagon, films like Top Gun: Maverick are more than just a movie. They are a recruitment bonanza.

A Simple, If Extremely Difficult Solution: Reduce the Number of Guns

May 27, 2022

If you're heartbroken and frustrated after yesterday's mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, you're not alone. There are things Congress can do right now, Congress just refuses to do them. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue

Oye Como Va ft. Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana

May 27, 2022

The legendary Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana, Becky G, Tito Puente, Jr., Tal Wilkenfeld, Rubén Rada, along with 20 other musicians from around the globe, join together for this energetic, classic, feel-good groove.

Jacinda Ardern at Harvard: Gun Control and Democracy

May 27, 2022

New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern receives a standing ovation as she gave the commencement address at Harvard University connecting gun control and democracy.

How Your Phone Knows If You’re Getting an Abortion

May 27, 2022

Roe vs. Wade is under threat. And if abortion is made illegal, people seeking to end their pregnancies will face an adversary that didn’t exist in 1973: mountains of data that can be used to track them.

The Hidden History of “Hand Talk”

May 27, 2022

The hidden history of an ancient language.

May 27, 2022

A Delivery App Tackles Health Care With One Slight Difference: Workers Have Rights

DANIELA DIB and TAMLIN MAGEE rest of world

Mexican laws generally protect the rights of health workers. But worker rights advocates caution that adopting this model of a precarious distribution platform by other industries can encourage informal work without social security.

May 27, 2022

Power of Poetry

Amy Meier Veterans of life Write

California poet Amy Meier wrote this poem in memory of Jacob George, a veteran of 3 tours in Afghanistan whose postwar “moral injury” led him to suicide.

May 26, 2022

We Have Failed To Protect Our Kids; We Have Never Been Civil

Roxane Gay The New York Times

Incivility runs through the history of this country, founded on stolen land, built with the labor of stolen lives. The document that governs our lives effectively denied more than half of the population the right to vote.