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Bar Association condemns “panic” defense in LGBTQ murders
August 21, 2013It's a major step forward that the American Bar Association has now officially condemned "panic" defenses used to justify anti-gay hate crimes.
Read moreMarch on Washington – right place to be in 1963 and 2013
August 21, 2013It's 50 years later but we still have to march. We're marching for Trayvon. We're marching for voting rights - still!
Read moreReader voices: Stop attacks on Fourth Amendment
August 19, 2013The times, they are a-changin, singer Bob Dylan wrote in 1964. Fast-forward to our present day and the times are still changing, only not in our favor.
Read moreWho should be the next Fed chair?
August 16, 2013If it were my decision, first I would try to talk Ben Bernanke out of leaving, since he is the closest thing to a "Depression scientist" that has ever been in the job.
Read moreA salute to Fidel Castro on his 87th birthday
August 14, 2013It is very hard to think of a more important world leader than Fidel.
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