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Atlanta Offers a Model for Building Sanctuary

Stephanie Guilloud Waging Nonviolence
By creating “Sanctuary Zones” that refuse to cooperate with ICE or police, a coalition in Atlanta is building the infrastructure to practice real community safety.

A Nation Divided on Sentencing Reform

Keith Wallington Mass Incarceration and Other Bad Ideas
Will policymakers follow evidence, invest in safety strategies that work, and recognize the human capacity for change, or continue repeating punitive approaches that history and research have already shown to fail?

Friday Nite Videos | August 28, 2026

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I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit. Canadian Resistance Army | Lake Ontario. NYC's 5 Broken Skyscrapers — Which One Dies First? 9 to 5 Is More Relevant Than Ever | Full Documentary. Earth is Warming Everywhere Except Here.

James Lawson Was the Civil Rights Movement’s Drill Sergeant

Chris Maisano Convergence
The civil rights movement’s nonviolence was a moral commitment and a strategic calculation of how the movement could best exert power. No practitioner of that nonviolence was more effective and disciplined than Rev. James Lawson.

CTE Cases Are Soaring. Why Can’t We Quit Football?

John Branch The New York Times
Some researchers believe that a complete tally will show that more than half of all former N.F.L. players die with C.T.E. If that’s true, football fans will be confronted with an even more troubling view of the game.

Meta’s $17B Teen Addiction Settlement

Carolina Rossini The Conversation
The settlement forces changes to Facebook and Instagram's efforts to 'addict' teenagers. It gives the states – and the rest of us – a decade to find out whether these changes are real, and if so, if they work for the desired policy outcome.
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