Another horrifying day in America: Mass shooting in Chicago suburb leaves 6 dead at July 4th Parade
Panicked children and adults ran for their lives Monday as at least six people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a mass shooting that took place during a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Veteran Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn...
Wisconsin leaders demand Ron Johnson resign over his attempt to use fake electors to overturn 2020 election
Wisconsin Democrats on June 21 led calls for U.S. Senator Ron Johnson’s resignation after the House January 6 committee revealed texts indicating that the Republican’s office wanted to hand-deliver certificates of fake electors to then-Vice President Mike...
Representative Ocasio-Cortez calls for impeachment of rightwing Justices who lied under oath to Congress
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said on June 26 that right-wing U.S. Supreme Court justices who “misled” senators during their respective confirmation hearings about whether they supported overturning Roe v. Wade should be impeached...
Federal gun safety legislation offers historic first step to address America’s pandemic of gun violence
Congress on June 24 cleared the most comprehensive federal gun safety legislation in nearly 30 years, a bipartisan package that went to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature a day later. In a 65-33 vote, the bill, comprised of eight provisions, passed the U.S....
Aftermath of mass shootings: The long pattern in American politics from outrage to indifference
By Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Political Science Department, State University of New York College at Cortland The nationwide call for stronger gun laws in the aftermath of mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and the over 200 other...
Exaggerated Impact: Why the topic of immigration is distorted globally to gain political advantages
By Ernesto Castañeda, Associate Professor of Sociology, American University Ernesto Castañeda is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at American University and the Director of the Immigration Lab. Castañeda explains why immigration is an important...
Detained in the cold: Overcrowded cells built for adults at border facilities is no place for children
During their harrowing journey from Venezuela to the Texas border, the three Zaragoza children liked to imagine the refuge they would find when they reached the United States, a place where they would finally be free from hunger and police harassment and could simply...
Dead migrants found in abandoned trailer truck shows desperation caused by Trump’s Title 42 policy
Lawmakers and rights advocates mourned the loss of life and decried the United States’ inhumane immigration system late Monday after an abandoned tractor-trailer rig containing at least 50 dead people and 16 survivors, including four children, was discovered in...
Roe is on the ballot: Why the final word on protecting abortion rights is now in the hands of voters
President Joe Biden called for Congress on June 24 to pass laws protecting abortion rights and for voters to elect pro-rights candidates on “a sad day for the country” after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion. Biden pledged to fight for policies that...
One step closer to slavery: Without bodily autonomy Americans have now become state regulated livestock
The conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that expanded access to abortion nationwide. This is on top of decisions deeply wounding state’s rights to make gun regulations, to hold police civilly accountable for reading suspects their...
With ruling against abortion rights the U.S. Supreme Court lost its last shred of Constitutional legitimacy
On Friday, June 24, an extremist majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overruled more than 50 years of legal precedent, taking away a previously recognized fundamental right for the first time in the court’s history. In doing so, it unleashed the full force of a...
A Radical Ruling: The impact of Dobbs goes beyond the issue of abortion and the decision to overturn Roe
By Linda C. McClain, Professor of Law, Boston University; Nicole Huberfeld, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law and Professor of Law, Boston University; and Morgan Marietta, Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell After half a century, Americans’...
