| Mandatory Minimum Gun Laws Steal Lives Maya Schenwar, The New York Times: We are accustomed to hearing about exorbitant mandatory minimum sentencing for drug offenses, but similar sentencing for gun possession is less frequently mentioned, though its effects are often just as devastating, especially for poor people and people of color. Read the Article From Waterboarding to “Water Curing”: Guantanamo Detainee First To Legally Challenge Force-Feeding Abuse Candice Bernd, Truthout: In the first legal challenge of its kind, Yemeni detainee Emad Abdullah Hassan's attorneys argue the military protocols for force-feeding prisoners at Guantánamo Bay have been knowingly altered to inflict superfluous suffering, in a move to silence the prisoners' nonviolent protests. Read the Article Only Way To Get Big Money Out of Politics: Devalue Political Influence Carmen Yarrusso, Truthout: Buying and selling political influence is, like money laundering and illegal drug trafficking, a consensual crime with a radically different nature than most crime that makes enforcing laws against this category of crime practically impossible. Read the Article How Does Yasiin Bey's Mathematics Add Up Now? Chris Steele, Truthout: How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song "Mathematics" changed in the 15 years since the song's release? Read the Article The Zombification of the West Werner de Gruijter, Truthout: The West in general passively believes the narrative of its secret services in favor of state control. What’s wrong with us? Why do we give up our liberties so easily? How can we avoid this trend toward authoritarianism? Read the Article Dismissal of Lawsuit Legitimizes Blatantly Racist Concert Promotion Policies Kathleen Wells, Truthout: For 114 years, The William Morris Agency has perpetuated overtly racist policies, disallowing black concert promoters from contracting with white entertainers. Now Leonard Rowe has filed commercial liens against the agency and others following wrongful dismissal of his civil rights lawsuit. Read the Article A Moral Blind Spot: The Catholic Establishment and the Y-2 Nuclear Protest Michael Gallagher, Contrary Perspective: The enthusiastic world-wide support given the extraordinary trio failed to include so much as an absent-minded pat on the head from the American Catholic hierarchy. Nor did they get much more attention from the liberal Catholic media. Read the Article Lakota Vow: 'Dead or in Prison Before We Allow the KXL Pipeline' Camila Ibanez, Waging Nonviolence: For a nation whose land and sovereignty has been threatened for hundreds of years by US politics, the Keystone XL pipeline is part of a long history of threats to the Lakota Nation – and to the earth itself. Read the Article Why I Didn't Make It to Gaza for International Women's Day Medea Benjamin, Pink Tank: Benjamin: When I boarded the plane to Cairo, Egypt, to make sure everything was in place for the women's delegation headed to Gaza, I had no reason to think I'd end up in a jail cell at the Cairo airport and then violently deported. Read the Article The Story of Atalissa Highlights America's Long-Term Care Problem Sarah Galli, Next New Deal: America's health care system neglects people who require long-term care and denies them the opportunity to lead full, rewarding lives. Read the Article | 
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