Victims of the Orlando massacre must be honored and remembered collectively. Barney Frank’s recent remarks on the Orlando massacre were as heartbreaking as they were unoriginal. Speaking with The New York Times, the former Democratic representative from Massachusetts downplayed the significance of the shooting as a sign of a dangerous...
Anti-refugee statements by American governors are stoking a climate of fear and resentment. Statements by 28 US governors that their states will not welcome Syrian refugees—or in some cases only those who are Muslim—are indefensible. Many analysts have noted that governors have no legal authority to deny entry to refugees,...
Teachers and nurses must not be made puppets of campaigns to silence dissent. Human and civil rights advocates throughout the United States are alarmed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) game-like “Don’t Be a Puppet” website. The agency described its website as intended to “keep youth from falling prey...
