News and Analysis from the United States
by Kirsten West Savali George Zimmerman, 28, the man charged with second degree murder in the February 26 shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has consistently stated through family and legal council that he returned to his car after… Read More ›
by JOHN ESKOW “You are Free, America, to Do as We Tell You!” What a pitiful spectacle. Ozzie Guillen, the hard-partying eccentric who manages the Florida Marlins, sits weeping in the harsh glare of TV lights, forced by his bosses… Read More ›
By Erin Gloria Ryan Despite the fact that there’s scant evidence in the Bible that Jesus was an asshole who commanded his followers to bully gay children to death, a group of American Christian parents seem to think Christ has… Read More ›
DETROIT — A teacher in southeastern Michigan has been fired for helping students organize a fundraiser for the family of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer, a national civil rights group said. Brooke… Read More ›
by Michelle Goldberg Governor Scott Walker signed a repeal of his state’s workplace-discrimination law—the latest battleground over the issues that matter most to women. On Thursday, with little fanfare, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a bill repealing the state’s 2009… Read More ›
By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline First it was the hoodie. Now photographs used in the media’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing are the subject of widespread debate, as supporters of both the slain 17-year-old African-American and the shooter,… Read More ›
By Cassie Murdoch After Andrew Lohse, the former Dartmouth frat boy who revealed some dark secrets about the hazing rituals that are apparently commonplace on campus, there’s been a lot of discussion about what exactly goes on in the bowels… Read More ›
By Elisha Anderson Detroit Free Press Staff Writer A racial slur appeared on a portable road sign along westbound I-94 in Detroit early today after the sign was hacked, officials said. Motorists began calling police shortly before 1 a.m. to… Read More ›
By NIKI KITSANTONIS ATHENS — The death of a 77-year-old Greek pensioner who shot himself in the head outside Parliament in despair over his financial problems has shaken this austerity-weary country and a crumbling political system struggling to assert its… Read More ›
by Tom Engelhardt I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth. On March 22,… Read More ›
Introduction: Contemporary Bourgeois Journalism Any person who has watched or read a mainstream news source like CNN or Fox News, The New York Times or the Washington Post, will have eventually been confronted with the concept of “unbiased reporting.” The… Read More ›
Four officers, along with a fifth who helped cover up the 2005 crimes, are sentenced to between six and 65 years in prison Four New Orleans police officers have been sentenced to decades in prison over the killing of two… Read More ›
A bill passed by Mississippi lawmakers putting new restrictions on doctors performing abortions moves the state one step closer to becoming “abortion free.” There is only one abortion clinic in the state, and the owner, Diane Derzis, has said the… Read More ›
The Martin family will send a formal request for a review of State’s Attorney Wolfinger’s actions to the Justice Department on Monday, lawyer Ben Crump told CNN Sunday The parents of Trayvon Martin are asking the feds to investigate the… Read More ›
SANFORD, Florida — The mayor of the city where Trayvon Martin was killed says he overruled police and prosecutors who opposed the release of tapes of 911 calls, telling them: “We’re not here to hide anything.” Jeff Triplett, who is… Read More ›
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