Since its inception, the designation of "hate crime" has been embraced by law enforcement for its redirection of focus and funding from addressing the root causes of crime to prosecuting individual acts.
Higher turnout only strengthens democratic accountability if it is the product of an engaged and informed electorate. Absent that, pushing for higher turnout is merely a mechanism for elite control.
Something clearly is rotten at the heart of the Turkish banking system. Yet a Manhattan court still thinks Turkey is a functioning democracy with a fair and transparent legal system.
In Congress, many Democrats have aligned themselves with large financial institutions because they want to allow banks to impose liberalism on the American people.
Two tragic mass shootings in the last week, first in Atlanta, Georgia then in Boulder, Colorado, have shocked the nation—and forced us into our familiar partisan camps in the same debate over gun control.
When I joined the Marine Corps, I was thrust into a strange new environment in which I was surrounded by people who held attitudes, beliefs and ideologies very different from my own.
When women are involved in leadership, they create products and services that are ideally designed and marketed for the primary shopper in the household: women.
You cannot have power without responsibility. Denying minorities responsibility for their own actions, both good and bad, will only deny us the power we rightly deserve.
I am a Palestinian from Gaza. Conspicuously absent from the five million Israelis lucky enough to get the vaccine were Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank, and in the Gaza Strip.
Anyone living with hearing loss will have difficulty following a conversation when face masks cover the speakers' lips. Face masks obscure both the faces and sounds, and make lipreading and using sign language difficult.
The best way to stop these crimes, no matter what motivated them, is to bolster police forces and prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law.
