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Issue: 996

April 11, 2024

View from the Battlefield

For the Love of Guns

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

To protect one’s home, does one really need an assault rifle that fires 20-30 rounds at 800 rounds per minute?

Ethan Crumbley was convicted last year and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were convicted in separate trials…

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Color of Law

Green Spaces Are the Key to Restoring Our Bodies, Minds and Souls

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

access to green spaces has a positive mental and physical impact on us and our children, and therefore our quality of life.

We must consider getting back into green spaces to restore our wellness. The stressors of daily life - whether financial, social, racial or otherwise - take…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

US Civil War II – Unfinished Business

By Desi Cortez Columnist

In the darkest recesses of American history, these ideas have lingered like malevolent ghosts, haunting the very soul of America.

John C Calhoun, Andrew Jackson’s vice president, once argued that enslaved people benefited from the institution “physically, morally, and intellectually.” He stated that “Liberty” was “a…

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Guest Commentary

Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The price of corporate compromising on safety is usually paid with taxpayer dollars and immigrant worker lives.

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not built to withstand a…

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Guest Commentary

Southern Auto Workers Are Rising

By Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes Guest Commentator

More than 10,000 workers at 13 non-union carmakers across two dozen facilities nationwide have signed union cards since last November.

Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama have filed for an election to vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers. Auto workers are gearing up to…

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