While one may argue that incarcerated people should be satisfied to have any work or income at all, the conditions of their “employment” are not livable.
Human connection is a human right. A child should always be able to talk to their parents; a partner should always be given the right to talk to their significant other.
Across the world, “democracies” are hiding powerful authoritarian structures that allow parties to write the rules of the game they play, producing an inherent bias that only further undermines the nature of their democracy.
One out of seven people are therefore being deprived of their chance for education, rehabilitation, and reintegration. These individuals deserve a second chance, because they are human.
Over the course of this semester, this column will explore inhumane aspects of the criminal legal system, sometimes proposing alternatives and sometimes just bearing witness to these practices and spreading awareness of them. I hope you will join me.
The media seems to have a fascination with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. Given the countless profile and opinion pieces attempting to provide the definitive take on the idiosyncrasies of the Democrats’ most conservative senator...
It is not just that the nationalistic plans of these people are morally reprehensible. A White ethnostate in the 21st century would fail. And it would fail spectacularly.
Time and again, the disparate attention paid to tragedies in the Global North and Global South reveal underlying inequities and injustices, ones which we must unlearn.
Saying Biafra deserves to be independent, or even saying the opposite, is a bit like saying that the world deserves to keep spinning: How do you even begin to justify why?
