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June 28, 2018 8:59 am | By 45589Children Belong in Their Parents’ Arms, Not Locked in Cages
I was just 17 years old when I left my sick mother alone in Syria and immigrated to the United States to finish my education. I had already lost my father to the sectarian civil war in Iraq in 2006,…
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June 8, 2018 11:22 am | By 53561Disturbing Writings from a Trump Judicial Nominee: Ryan Bounds
In a shocking collection of writings for the Stanford Review, Ryan Bounds, Trump’s nominee for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, reveals a deplorable disregard for the experiences of people of color, people who are LGBTQ, and victims of sexual…
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June 5, 2018 4:01 pm | By 28178The GOP’s Neo-Nazi Problem
This piece was originally posted on Medium. The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem. At least three congressional candidates running as Republicans are doing so explicitly to promote white nationalist and anti-Semitic platforms. It’s hard to be shocked anymore, but…
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May 31, 2018 10:30 am | By 53561Religious Right’s Hypocrisy: Freedom of Speech Unless You’re Pro-Choice
The glaring hypocrisy of the Religious Right has been exposed again. So-called crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, often lie to patients to dissuade them from having an abortion. To address the public health concerns posed by CPCs’ dishonest practices, California…
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April 4, 2018 11:51 am | By 2818750 Years After King’s Death, A Legacy of Youth Leadership Endures
This post originally appeared on Medium. It was fifty years ago this week when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at just 39 years old, cutting short the life of one of the most visible and important civil rights…
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March 20, 2018 4:46 pm | By 28189GOP Wants to Flood Politics with Dark Money Using Hidden “Policy Riders”
Campaign finance reform was once a bipartisan issue. With Koch money flooding into the GOP, those days are gone This post originally appeared in Salon. The rising tide of political spending that has swamped Washington in the wake of Citizens United and…
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March 15, 2018 3:07 pm | By 51279HUD Mission Statement Is Trump’s Latest Censorship Salvo
On March 5, Secretary Ben Carson and the Department of Housing and Urban Development made one thing clear: after a half century of enforcing the Fair Housing Act, HUD is no longer in the fair housing business. Carson thinks that…
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February 27, 2018 3:41 pm | By 53562Trump’s Most Dangerous Attack on Racial Justice May Be His Judges
Donald Trump’s racism has been clear since he launched his campaign for president. Now as president, he has had the power and opportunity to double down through destructive speeches and executive orders that imperil communities of color in America. What…
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February 26, 2018 5:49 pm | By 60862Attack On Pennsylvania Supreme Court Is An Attack On The Rule Of Law Itself
This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Congratulations of a cynical sort are in order for Republican Pennsylvania state Rep. Cris Dush, who has accomplished something notable. By urging his fellow GOP legislators to impeach five Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who…
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November 3, 2017 1:47 pm | By 28186What This Week’s Events, Including Indictments, Tell Us About Trump’s Judicial Nominations
This piece was originally published on HuffPost. By any standard, it’s been a very eventful week in our nation’s capital. But significant developments that may not seem related—including action on the Senate floor and in the Judiciary Committee, as well…
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October 30, 2017 2:53 pm | By 41753Don’t Let Republican Smears Distract From Trump Judges’ Horrible Records
This post was originally published on HuffPost. The Senate is getting ready to move on another set of awful judicial nominees chosen to advance the far-right’s goal of gaining ideological dominance over the federal judiciary as a way to reverse many of the…
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September 26, 2017 1:02 pm | By 58192
When Charges of Anti-Religious Bigotry Become a Cynical Distraction
This post was originally published on Medium. Bigotry is a deadly reality in this country, something that many people deny even as its violent consequences are right before our eyes. We need to foster a greater willingness to acknowledge the…
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September 13, 2017 8:48 am | By 41753Jeff Sessions’ Lies Reveal the Truth about Trump Rescinding DACA
This post originally appeared in HuffPost. When it comes to demonizing immigrants and employing dog whistles to the racist and nativist Right, Donald Trump has never been all that subtle. He launched his presidential campaign with vicious attacks on Mexican…
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September 7, 2017 4:40 pm | By 42850Destroying the Johnson Amendment Helps Special Interests, Not Churches
This post originally appeared in HuffPost. At this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump vowed to “get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment.” It is a promise that he has been making since he was on the campaign…
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September 6, 2017 4:16 pm | By 51279Trump Wants to Roll Back Voting Rights—Here’s What We Should Be Doing Instead
President Trump's so-called “election integrity” commission will meet next week in New Hampshire. This is the second convening of Trump's voter suppression cadre, people like Kris Kobach and Hans von Spakovsky who have built careers on the idea that only…
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August 29, 2017 5:00 pm | By 28191Democrats have never needed a deeper bench and never had a thinner one.
So let’s fix that. These are dark days for Democrat still sorting through the ashes of the 2016 elections. When Donald Trump won the electoral and thus the White House in 2016, and Republicans maintained control of both houses of Congress,…
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August 17, 2017 4:28 pm | By 55374The New Civil Rights Crisis
This post originally appeared on Medium. I grew up in one of the parishes white supremacist David Duke won when he ran for governor. Duke, a former KKK leader, and many others like him spew hatred to push their white…
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August 15, 2017 1:44 pm | By 45589Our Diversity is Our Strength: White Supremacy Has No Place in America Today
This post originally appeared on HuffPost. Nine years ago this month I arrived in the United States to attend Union College in Schenectady, NY, where I finished my undergraduate studies. I still remember the very first thing I noticed the…
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August 4, 2017 5:22 pm | By 28186Sessions: Tell the Truth About Your Project to Attack Campus Diversity Efforts
This piece was originally published on HuffPost. Earlier this week it was widely reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was planning “a new project to investigate and sue universities over affirmative action admissions policies they determine discriminate against white applicants.” A…
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August 3, 2017 4:33 pm | By 45589Trump’s Nativist Attacks on Immigrants Weaken Our Country
This post originally appeared in HuffPost. As a green card holder myself, I can tell you from personal experience that immigrants fight really hard and struggle so much to obtain their green cards. They do that because they want to…