Seattle cop handcuffs a drunk black woman and throws her in the back of a police car. She tries to kick at him. He punches her in the face and breaks her orbital bone. Seattle's city attorney urges charges to be pressed as the cop...
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I've written before about one of the most ill-conceived infrastructure projects in the country currently--a plan to build a deep bore tunnel under downtown Seattle so highway 99 (currently an.
There's a reason that corporations love state regulators and state politicians--they can easily buy them for cheap. Such is the politics of the New Gilded Age, when politicians are as.
The great environmentalist Martin Litton has died. A radical within what was traditionally a pretty conservative Sierra Club, Litton allied with David Brower to lead the fight to save Dinosaur National Monument from the Echo Park Dam in 1956, a key moment in the rise...
Thurgood Marshall: Although the city instructs its officers that use of a chokehold does not constitute deadly force, since 1975 no less than 16 persons have died following the use.
Just because you are a police officer doesn't automatically mean you support the racist killing of black people by your co-workers. There are some Bunny Colvin types out there. Including.
A reader sent this to me, to which I give thanks. This is the cover of the February 12, 1898 issue of Harper's. Thanks to Google Books, the greatest invention since indoor plumbing. You can buy a print of it here. Or you can buy...
Being poor is horrible for so many reasons. Among them is that life's little inconveniences for the non-poor can be utterly devastating. Getting sick and missing a couple of days.
As I discussed awhile ago, the teaching assistants at my alma mater, the University of Oregon, were discussing going on strike over the university's refusal to provide them paid sick.
This isn't the most important topic, but rather than make this point again and again in comments I thought I'd make it here. Before that, read Weigel and Fisher and Heer's twitter essay. And now, to set up my discussion, the always-smart Pierce: So, no,...
Richard Pryor on police killing black people with choke holds.
This is Roy's beat, but his rundown didn't cover Dreher, whose blog I've found myself lurking on lately for reasons I can neither explain nor defend. Dreher starts off sounding.