| From Fallujah to the San Fernando Valley, Police Use Analytics To Target "High Crime" Areas Darwin Bond Graham and Ali Winston, Truthout: "Predictive policing," a new high-tech method by which police crunch crime statistics and other data with algorithms to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, is seen to expand the militarization - including contractor profiteering - and racialization of police work. Read the Article The Culling of the American Herd Karen Garcia, Truthout: When a Danish zoo killed a baby giraffe to cull its confined herd, coverage by mainstream media was widespread. A Harvard/CUNY report released around the same time predicting that as many as 17,000 Americans may die as a result of some states refusing to expand their Medicaid programs under Obamacare, has received little attention. Read the Article Developed Nations Give Up on Stopping Climate Change, Turn to Mitigating Impact, Largely Abandoning Third World Mark Karlin, Truthout: In Windfall: The Blooming Business of Global Warming, McKenzie Funk writes about those who would make money off of climate change, and he pens a captivating read that avoids being funereal. Funk regularly acknowledges the droll ironies of a society that can even profit from its own self-destruction. Read the Review It's Time To End All Drug Testing The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: As the reality of legalized marijuana inches closer and closer every day, more and more Americans are rethinking our society’s attitude toward drugs. But not the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Read the Article A Modern Mode of Punishment Justin Randle, Truthout: Solitary confinement is torture - and it's not benefitting anyone in society. So, why does it continue to be used? Read the Article The Christian Right's "Religious Freedom" Wants To Elevate Beliefs Above Human Rights — and It's Working Valerie Tarico, AlterNet: Sacrosanct religious rights will let conservatives roll back rights for LGBT and women. Read the Article Paul Krugman | Masters of the Universe, Superstars of Wall Street Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: Harvard economist Greg Mankiw has written another defense of the 0.1% - and this one, a recent op-ed for The New York Times titled "Yes, the Wealthy Can Be Deserving," is kind of amazing. Read the Article Legacy of Lost Hegemony Harriet Fraad, Truthout: Michael Kimmel's new popular recognition of white American male rage, Angry White Men, describes the fury of white American men who have been cast out of their dominant roles within the economy, the family and personal life. Read the Review William Blum Discusses America's Deadliest Export: Democracy Daniel Falcone, Truthout: Foreign policy commentator and author William Blum discusses his latest book, America's Deadliest Export: Democracy, The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else, the real threat to US security, media propaganda, the one-party state and much more. Read the Interview Vermonters Want To Try a New Way of Banking Kevin Mathews, Care2: More than 20 Vermont towns met this month to weigh the merits of public banking, and the response was extremely favorable. By a ratio of about two to one, Vermonters advocated for public banking. Read the Article School Board Candidates Backed by Koch-Connected Nonprofit Rachel Baye, The Center for Public Integrity: The difference between an issue ad and a political ad may seem indecipherable to the average viewer, but when it comes to what a nonprofit can and can’t do with its money, state and federal laws make a critical distinction. Watch the Video and Read the Article | 
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