Social Justice
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Frustrations with the U.S. prison system have prompted a global search for alternatives. Yet the solution might not be as simple as “be like Scandinavia.”
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Can Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation efforts help the U.S. with its own reckoning?
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Even nations with long histories of inequality and violence carry lessons for how to move toward what might be called a more perfect union.
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We need to build on past achievements, expand our ideas of the possible, and move toward a shared vision of the future—with disabled people at the forefront of the push toward justice.
“Strategic discrimination” is a subtle yet pervasive behavior that keeps people from voting for women and people of color.
“There’s something about immigrants that makes us almost expansive in our thinking, because in our neighborhood, the world meets.”
Demanding an end to the escalating violence of Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad has mobilized youth across religious and ethnic divides.
Author Sady Doyle says LGTBQ teens need more representation in horror. So they wrote the book they’d wished they’d read when they were young.
How Nick and Jenny summoned the Devil and ushered in the apocalypse before they graduated from high school. (Also, they’re sorry about that.)
“We have every right to do our jobs and represent our communities without fearing for our safety.”
This decision comes with the privileges of race, class, and citizenship status—which is why reproductive justice needs to be part of the climate conversation.
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