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Nov 22 2014
News
What we know today about Ferguson
There's still no word on whether a grand jury will indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. As of early Saturday, officials have declined to say where the jury is in its process.
Ahead of that announcement, here's what we do know:
• Police and protesters are planning ahead. Police leaders have met five times with some protest group leaders, resulting
USA TODAYNov 09 2013
News
Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?
Red states and blue states? Flyover country and the coasts? How simplistic. Colin Woodard, a reporter at the Portland Press Herald and author of several books, says North America can be broken neatly into 11 separate nation-states, where dominant cultures explain our voting behaviors and attitudes toward everything from social issues to the role of government.
Washington PostAug 23 2020
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Slate of proposed bills could change policing in California
It’s been three months since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and calls for sweeping criminal justice reform.
In many states, residents are still waiting for new laws and policies to be enacted. In California, lawmakers have until Aug. 31 to consider more than a dozen bills aimed at reducing, overseeing and disciplining the
NBC News DigitalSep 20 2019
News
Photos: What the youth climate strike looks like around the world
Friday may be remembered as the largest global demonstration ever in the fight against climate change. Inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, young people around the world have organized to skip school and protest in the street over the climate crisis and the adults who aren’t doing enough to transition off fossil fuels.
Thunberg and her group Fridays for Future aren’t
VoxSep 20 2019
News
A Rising Generation Asserts Itself On Climate Change
Spurred by what they see as a sluggish, ineffectual response to the existential threat of global warming, student activists from around the world are skipping school Friday, for what organizers call a Global Climate Strike.
The young activists are protesting as the U.N. prepares to hold its Climate Action Summit on Monday in New York City.
The strike's figurehead is 16-year-old
NPR (Online News)Apr 01 2019
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Forget the shouting and demonizing: College students organize civil discussions
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Tempers are flaring again over free speech. But while many people shout and tweet across the political divide, college students are organizing civil campus discussions — with both sides at the table.
In the wake of violent political protests on campuses, some students have stepped away from the fray to seek what’s been lacking: space for reasoned conversation,
Washington PostApr 30 2017
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Thousands March In Washington, D.C. Heat To Demand Trump Act On Climate Change
As more than 100,000 protesters took to the National Mall Saturday to demand the Trump administration quit cozying up to fossil fuel companies and take action against climate change, D.C. experienced sweltering heat that tied a record for April 29.
HuffPostJan 17 2021
Opinion
The U.S. Capitol Riot Was Years in the Making. Here's Why America Is So Divided
There is no advanced industrial democracy in the world more politically divided, or politically dysfunctional, than the United States today. How did the world’s most powerful country get to this point? To paraphrase a great American writer—slowly, then suddenly. The Capitol riot was not just years in the making, but decades. That’s because of three distinct features of American society that
Time MagazineJan 15 2021
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Politico Newsroom In Uproar Over Ben Shapiro’s Guest Playbook Column
Politico faced an internal uproar on Thursday after its decision to let right-wing podcast host Ben Shapiro write a guest column in its widely read Politico Playbook newsletter, with staff asking editors why a pundit with “a long history of bigoted and incendiary commentary” would be given such a massive platform.
Shapiro, who rose to prominence as an editor at far-right media outlet
HuffPostJun 02 2020
News
Shadowy protestors inflame, muddle George Floyd debate
The shadowy identity of the violent agitators trashing cities across the country has muddled the national debate over racial justice, inflaming partisan tensions, triggering finger-pointing from all sides and threatening to sap the power of those seeking reforms after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police.
Mass protests have erupted in scores of cities across
The Hill