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“I’ll sit out the 2016 elections”: really?
May 7, 2015Announcements by candidates running for president are coming fast and furious; the 2016 election campaign has begun.
Read moreCinco de Mayo, USA-style
May 5, 2015One of my great-grandfathers was helping organize Cinco de Mayo events in Tucson by the early 1880s.
Read moreJudge recognizes personhood of chimpanzee plaintiff
May 5, 2015A large variety of species show a propensity for mutually supportive social behavior, few more than chimpanzees and other apes and monkeys.
Read moreIndigenous people walk off set of Adam Sandler film “Ridiculous Six”
May 1, 2015Reducing a whole group of people down to stereotypes further dehumanizes Native people.
Read moreKing and his radical vision: a study for today
May 1, 2015In light of recent police killings, it's worthwhile to study how MLK drew the clergy and trade unions into the civil rights movement of their time.
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