Walter Mosley, The Nation. September 18, 2009.
We need to concentrate on our own happiness if we expect to make a difference in the careening technological and slovenly evolving social world of the 21st century.

Salim Muwakkil, In These Times. September 18, 2009.
Barack Obama navigates a world where color still matters.

Elizabeth B. Wydra, Immigration Policy Center. September 17, 2009.
For over a decade bills have been introduced in Congress to end automatic citizenship for persons born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally.

Raw Story. September 17, 2009.
In a remark extraordinary even by the standards of his show, Rush Limbaugh said explicitly, Wednesday that the United States needed to return to racially segregated busing.

Seth Hoy, Immigration Impact. September 17, 2009.
A new report released last week lays out just how daunting the task of detention reform will be.

Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. September 16, 2009.
The Obama administration has announced it will introduce a review system for the 600 prisoners at Bagram airbase. But a close look at the plan reveals cause for alarm.

Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. September 16, 2009.
As studies document the link between anti-immigrant hate speech and violence against Latinos, Dobbs continues to fan the flames.

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 16, 2009.
Tasers aren't 'nonlethal'; they've killed hundreds. With younger people being especially vulnerable to the Taser's shock, the risks could be very deadly.

Devona Walker, The Loop. September 16, 2009.
There are a lot of problems in America, but right-wingers and the GOP seem to be stuck on making controversy over issues involving black people.

Naomi Klein, The Guardian. September 15, 2009.
The summer of 2009 was all about race, and Obama has little to lose by using this brief political window of racial animus to heal a few of the country's racial wounds.

Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. September 14, 2009.
Republic workers captured the attention of the world when they occupied their plant on December 5, 2008 calling for the severance and vacation pay they were due.

Eric Ward, Imagine 2050. September 14, 2009.
The mainstream media chose to ignore the racist connotations of Obama as nothing more than man in Black Face.

Moazzam Begg, AlterNet. September 13, 2009.
My final Ramadan was spent alongside the world's most dangerous terrorists (according to Bush) and its finest examples of patience and fortitude (according to me).

Jessica Pupovac, Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 12, 2009.
While other states release low-risk, high-cost prisoners, CA officials want to jail another terminal prisoner, on taxpayers' dime.

Andy Worthington, Comment Is Free. September 11, 2009.
In Guantánamo, 225 men remain imprisoned, most of them never charged, ostensibly for some connection with these attacks.

Christopher Moraff, The Philadelphia Tribune. September 11, 2009.
Author Ronald Kessler warns that the rise in threats and inadequate govt. resources may be putting the commander in chief at risk.

Andy Worthington, AlterNet. September 9, 2009.
A Spanish newspaper reports that Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against attorneys who implemented torture at Guantánamo.

Penny Coleman, AlterNet. September 9, 2009.
Far too many soldiers end up behind bars while the rest of us are free to ignore the human evidence of what our military ventures really cost.

David Swanson, Seven Stories Press. September 9, 2009.
In his new book, Daybreak, Swanson warns that Cheney radically transformed the role of the vice president into an unaccountable, dangerous seat of power.

Don Hazen, AlterNet. September 9, 2009.
With Obama the target of hate speech and over 30 death threats a day, the FBI needs to hear that it can't let budget shortfalls get in the way of the president's life.

Willam Fisher, IPS News. September 8, 2009.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of Abdullah Al-Kidd.

Lucile Malandain, Agence France Presse. September 8, 2009.
Opponents of the death penalty hope the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas, will be a turning point towards abolition.

Nathan Schneider, The Immanent Frame. September 8, 2009.
A religion scholar discusses the failure of the courts to grapple with lived religion, the prison crisis and why we are all religious now.

Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. September 5, 2009.
Not satisfied with calling heinous acts just "evil," author Michael Stone ranks "justifiable homicide" as a mild category 1 and "sexually perverse serial killers" at No. 17.

Michael Winship, Bill Moyers Journal. September 5, 2009.
A nasty little piece of propaganda could unleash a new torrent of cash flooding into campaigns from big business, unions and other special interests.

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 4, 2009.
With apparent psychos like Garrido wreaking havoc, it's hard for society to be reasonable about the thousands of people have been wrongly swept up by excessive sex offender laws.

Christopher Hayes, The Nation. September 2, 2009.
From CIA assassinations to domestic spying, a sweeping investigation of government crimes is not only possible -- it has been done before.

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 2, 2009.
You thought they were just unhinged. But here's what they're really saying to the armed and dangerous.

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. September 1, 2009.
Cheney is all over the airwaves, trotting out his propaganda and defense of the Bush administration's serial violations of the Geneva conventions.

Eric Ward, Imagine 2050. August 31, 2009.
You can take a bite out of bigotry in less than five minutes a day!