Category Civil Liberties and Human Rights

Homelessness Isn’t Helplessness, however “Housing First” Assumes It Is

Homelessness Isn’t Helplessness, however “Housing First” Assumes It Is In a 2006 New Yorker article, “Million-Greenback Murray,” creator Malcolm Gladwell advised the story of Murray Barr, an alcoholic who had spent a decade dwelling on the streets of Reno. The…

The PayPal Fiasco Was No Accident

The PayPal Fiasco Was No Accident PayPal on Oct. 8 despatched out an replace to its phrases of use, or acceptable use coverage (AUP), that included a surprising addition. It reserved the fitting to confiscate $2,500 from individuals’s accounts in the…

The Fall of Canada, the Hazard within the U.S.

The Fall of Canada, the Hazard within the U.S. The world has watched, in ache, as photos of police violence from Ottawa, and of a bid for Canadian tyranny (that I might ever write these phrases!) are flashed world wide.…

Jerry Brown the Born-Once more Land Grabber

Jerry Brown the Born-Once more Land Grabber On his means out the door, President Obama declared as nationwide monuments 1.35 million acres of federal land in Utah and 300,000 acres close to Gold Butte, Nevada, a state the place the…

Buttigieg’s ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Will Remedy Nothing

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has taken flak from some conservatives for his new “Reconnecting Communities” initiative. He says its objective is to redress the truth that planners and politicians of the previous constructed highways “straight via the guts of…

How They Satisfied Trump to Lock Down

An everlasting thriller for 3 years is how Donald Trump got here to be the president who shut down American society for what turned out to be a manageable respiratory virus, setting off an unspeakable disaster with waves of damaging…

When Did Populism Grow to be a Soiled Phrase?

I’m fascinated by the opposing connotations some political phrases have in the US, on the one hand, and Europe and Latin America, on the opposite. One such phrase is “liberal”—which within the U.S. is related to the left and massive…

California’s Proposition 1 May Be an Enchancment if Extra Reforms Comply with

Proposition 1, the only statewide poll measure dealing with California voters on March 5, goals to enhance entry to behavioral well being providers. It is only one half of what is going to have to be a multifaceted strategy to…