Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'US'
Black Hoods and Commandos — Coming to Your Town?
by Nadine Bloch, Waging Nonviolence, USA - Both guerrilla theater and storytelling through documentation are dramatic ways of inserting the horrors of a war and atrocities fought overseas into the daily life and consciousness of blissfully ignorant constituents — and...
The Longest War
by Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, USA - We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or...
Study Finds Widespread 'Criminalisation of Pregnancy' in US Institutions
by Karen McVeigh, Guardian, UK - Hundreds of women have been arrested, convicted, jailed, detained in mental institutions or forced to endure medical procedures as a result of the "criminalisation of pregnancy" over the last four decades, a new report...
Why Steubenville Is Not Delhi: How We Are Failing in This Country
by Lauren Wolfe, Women Under Siege, USA - The rape of a teenager in Steubenville, Ohio, is being dissected to pieces in terms of the “who, what, where,” but very few people are taking a look at the “why.”...
Renowned French Economist to Join Obama’s Team
by Aude Mazoue, France 24, France - France’s Esther Duflo, a star economist who was once named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, has been nominated by US President Barack Obama to help shape US...
Triage System Helps Colleges Treat Mentally Ill Students
by Jenny Gold, NPR, USA - Over the past decade, colleges and universities across the country have seen an influx of students like Dale with mental health needs. The stigma of mental illness has started to dissipate, and more students...
Newtown, CT: The Culture of Terror and the Failure of the National Security Agenda
by Falguni A. Sheth, Translation Exercises, USA - The shooting in Newtown, CT is but part and parcel of a culture of shooting children, shooting civilians, shooting innocent adults, that has been waged by the U.S. government since September 12,...
The Woes of an American Drone Operator
by Nicola Abé, Der Spiegel, Germany - A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States Air Force in New...
"We Have to Do Something": Rep. Carolyn McCarthy on the Growing Push for Gun Control after Newtown
by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, USA - "Are we going to give animals a better chance of surviving than we as human beings?"...
No More Newtowns: What Will It Take?
by Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, Mother Jones, USA - What, after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, the Sikh temple shooting, and so many others, what would it take for the nation to grapple with the fact that our gun policy...
Outsourcing Injustice in Apparel
by Anna M Clark, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The fire at Tazreen factory, an unauthorised sub-contracted supplier to Walmart and other global retail brands, is a reminder that when it comes to human rights and workers' rights, we haven't come...
How Can We Protect Our Kids in a Culture That Accepts Guns?
by Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, USA - What has happened to our culture that we even have this category — school shootings — by which to measure a horror that should otherwise be inconceivable, immeasurable and unfathomable?...
How to Attack the Gender Wage Gap? Speak Up
by Jessica Bennett, New York Times, USA - In many ways, the wage gap is a complicated problem tied to culture, tradition and politics. But one part of it can be traced to a simple fact: many women just don’t...
Low-Income Americans Are Facing the Real Cliff
by Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC, USA - If Congress can’t reach a deal by New Year’s, 2.1 million people will be kicked off unemployment benefits. Not only would that be catastrophic for millions of low-income families across the country, it could...
Ground-Breaking Solar Agreement between LA and Nevada Tribe
by Mary Anne Hitt, Grist, USA - This Moapa Solar project is one of two long-term solar purchasing agreements that, along with the CLEAN LA Feed-in-Tariff solar program, are designed to replace power from Arizona’s Navajo Generating Station coal plant...
You Owe Me
by Miah Arnold, Michigan Quarterly Review, USA - The children I write with die, no matter how much I love them, no matter how creative they are, no matter how many poems they have written, or how much they want...
New Futuro Narrows the Education Gap for Latino Students
by Kathryn Hawkins, The Atlantic, USA - A Chicago startup is partnering with community groups and companies to make college goals more accessible to Latino youths in the United States....
How One (Female) CIA Operative Would Fix Our Wars
by Michele Lent Hirsch, Women Under Siege, USA - If our goal is to create stable, inclusive sovereignty for all countries—particularly those looking to regain their footing in the immediate aftermath of a conflict—it’s in our national interest to protect...
America the (In)dispensable
by Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, Canada - We may be entering an era in which the U.S. is the leader not by design but by default. Americans want to be dispensable. But the world won’t let them....
“Multigenerational Poverty”
by Alice Keys, M.D., Mad in America, USA - I was taught in medical school that poverty is the cause of our difficulties in providing medical care. I was taught to blame the patient for being poor and unemployed....
Infant Deaths: Searching for Answers in Mississippi
by Elizabeth Landau, CNN, USA - For every 1,000 Mississippi babies born in 2011, 9.4 died before their first birthday, according to the state's health office. That makes Mississippi's infant mortality rate more comparable to countries such as Costa Rica...
The Poor Will Be the First over the Fiscal Cliff
by Bryce Covert, The Nation, USA - The bottom 20 percent of Americans will see their taxes go up by an average of $209, reducing their after-tax income by nearly 2 percent. The top 40 percent, however, will only see...
Genocide as a Partial Picture
by Julie Masis, Asia Times, Hong Kong - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC plans a new exhibition on Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, but it is uncertain if the American secret bombing of the country some analysts say...
Another ‘Year of the Woman’? Not So Fast
by Ann Friedman, New York Magazine, USA - I’m not thrilled to label this “our year” when women are nowhere near achieving parity. The “Year of the Woman” narrative just goes to show that we’re still labeling women’s marginal electoral...
Women Voters Usher in a Female Congressional Wave
by Bryce Covert, Forbes, USA - The percentage of women in office may still be small, but it’s edging up, in large part thanks to their fellow women at the polls....
The Steady Drone
by Mariana Baabar, Outlook, India - Obama or Romney, it is apparent that Washington won’t certainly change its polices towards Islamabad—whether on conditional aid, the use of drones or action against militants....
Death by Drones
by Janie Rezner, WINGS, Canada - Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, tells Women's Voices host Janie Rezner about her recent trip to Pakistan to oppose drone strikes, what she learned...
Facing Brain Surgery, a Health Economist Finds the Health-Care Market Hard to Navigate
by Dahlia K. Remler, Washington Post, USA - My difficulties show how hard it is — even for someone who has studied health-care and insurance issues — to navigate the health-care marketplace, particularly when you have a serious medical condition....
Why Vote? Because You Can Shift Power in the United States
by Aura Bogado, Colorlines, USA - Voting rights still matter as much as the act of voting itself. Aside from the long history that guaranteed suffrage for all adult citizens, casting a ballot does make a difference to our future....
The Purpose of U.S. Aid to Egypt Needs Re-Examining
by Thalia Beaty, Daily Star, Lebanon - o see U.S. foreign aid as a faucet that should turn on and off when the Egyptian government steps out of line with U.S. policy is fundamentally incorrect both in terms of how...
Against the Destruction of the World and the Climate by Greed
by Rebecca Solnit, The Nation, USA - You can blame it all on greed: the refusal to do anything about climate change, the attempts by the .01 percent to destroy our democracy, the constant robbing of the poor, the resultant...
Ending Human Rights Violations in the Mental Health System Institute Alternatives 2012
by Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland, Mad in America, USA - People don’t understand that when they reach out for help for themselves or someone they care about, it can have threatening and lifelong consequences....
Sanctions Are Pushing Iran towards Nuclear Talks, Just Not US Sanctions
by Heidi Moore, Guardian, UK - Sanctions against Iran are working but you won't have heard that at the presidential debate – because the US has Europe to thank....
Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online?
by Karen J Greenberg, Asia Times, Hong Kong - Cyber is "a new terrain for warfare", Panetta tells us, a "battlefield of the future". So perhaps it's time to ask two questions: In a world of cyber-fear, what has the...
A World without the West
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - A little over a week ago, Pakistani youth activist Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. The country, already bearing the burden of daily barbarities, stood stunned....
Why I'm Standing up to TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas
by Daryl Hannah, Guardian, UK - Don't buy the tale that this tar sands oil will make the US energy-independent. It's export for profit, even as spills poison our water....
We All Count: A Southern Movement for Justice
by Bianca Campbell, Strong Families, USA - The Assembly is an effort led by grassroots organizations with the Southern Movement Alliance to increase voter education and registration in underrepresented communities, train new organizers, and create a Southern People’s Plan to...
Collateral Damage in the War on Women
by Akiba Solomon, Colorlines, USA - Two years into what NARAL Pro-Choice America has famously dubbed the War on Women, the wear is beginning to show in cities and towns around the country where poor, uninsured women live. In the...
2013: First Year for Korean Peace
by Christine Hong, Asia Times, Hong Kong - As the longest war in US history - predating America's ongoing quagmire in Afghanistan by over half a century - the Korean War points to permanent conflict as the discomfiting, long-run truth...
West Virginia’s Prescription Drug Problem: A Gift from the Coal Mining Industry?
by Alison Bass, Alison Bass, USA - West Virginia now has the second highest rate of prescription drug overdoses in the country, and a large part of that problem can be traced back to the state’s culture of disability, according...
Tough Talk for America
by Mattea Kramer, Tomgram, USA - Five big things will decide what this country looks like next year and in the 20 years to follow, but here’s a guarantee for you: you’re not going to hear about them in the...
Walmart? Nein, Danke!
by Padma Rao Sundarji, Outlook India, India - Walmart in India. Will it create jobs and benefit farmers? Provide consumers a one-stop convenience? Instal cold storages to eliminate the current losses of roughly 40 per cent of rotting agricultural produce?...
Dear Hanna Rosin: I'm Doing Fine! Love, the Patriarchy
by Bryce Covert, The Nation, USA - The purpose of feminism was never to win a battle of us versus them. Remember the slogan “A world that is good for women is good for everyone”? The point is equality—which is...
Latin America Becomes Less of a US Backyard and More of a Brazil Playground
by Mar Guinot-Aguado, Brazzil, Brazil - As Brazil seeks to expand its influence throughout and beyond Latin America, its foreign policy increasingly collides with the historically U.S.-dominated role in guiding issues such as trade and security matters....
In Case You Missed It: Obama Is Cracking Down on Slavery
by Dana Liebelson, Mother Jones, USA - President Obama signed an executive order that experts say could stop US tax dollars from funding human trafficking abroad. But does it go far enough?...
Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot
by Debbie Elliott, NPR, USA - Ole Miss is commemorating the 50th anniversary of integration on campus Monday with a tribute to Meredith and a series of panel discussions. But the man who made that history doesn't like the idea...
The Myth of Male Decline
by Stephanie Coontz, New York Times, USA - The curtailment of such male entitlements and the expansion of women’s legal and economic rights have transformed American life, but they have hardly produced a matriarchy. Indeed, in many arenas the progress...
The TPP: A Quiet Coup for the Investor Class
by Hilary Matfess, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - American democracy is in a sorry state when corporations are granted more access to even the text of sweeping government agreements than the public and its elected officials. Although corporate influence...
Netanyahu and the US Presidential Election
by Susan Hattis Rolef, Jerusalem Post, Israel - Israel-US relations are already in need of some serious repair, and let us just hope that we are not in a situation of “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men...
One Nation by and for the Corporations
by Dahlia Lithwick, The Nation, USA - With the doctrinal reification of “corporate personhood”—seemingly placing it above human personhood—the Roberts Court established a political metaphor that would keep on giving to progressives throughout the Occupy Wall Street effort, the Wisconsin...
Punishing Blasphemers: New Calls on an Old Issue
by Leela Jacinto, France 24, France - An Islamist wave in North Africa followed by the recent violence over an incendiary anti-Islam video clip and new Prophet Mohammad cartoons have revived an old call for an international law that criminalises...
Europe Flees from “Arab Winter”
by Barbara Spinelli, La Repubblica, Italy - The anti-Western demonstrations in Arab countries and the turn the "Arab Spring" is taking in several countries are shouting out a challenge to Europe. But Europe, looking inward to its economic and institutional...
Terror and Teargas on the Streets of Bahrain
by Jen Marlowe, Tomgram, USA - Ignoring the revolution underway in Bahrain and its demands for freedom and democracy is, however, perilous. If activists move from largely peaceful demonstrations toward the use of violence, Bahrain could prove the powder keg...
5 Issues This Election Should Be About, and One to Drop
by Sarah van Gelder, Yes!, USA - Cutting through the campaign rhetoric and attack ads, here are five issues we believe should be at the center of the 2012 election, plus one that has no place in the public sphere....
The Latest Battle in the War on Voting
by Marge Baker, Other Words, USA - The kind of big government the Right likes is the kind that keeps certain people from voting....
Sexual Violence Is Tearing Native American Communities Apart
by Lauren Wolfe and Lauren Chief Elk, Guardian, UK - One in three Native American women report they have been raped. More needs to be done to bring perpetrators to justice....
Occupy Your Victories
by Rebecca Solnit, Tomgram, USA - People learned how direct democracy works; they tasted power; they found something in common with strangers; they lived in public. All those things mattered and matter still. They are a great foundation for the...
Innocence of Protesters, Not Killers or Provocateurs
by Merve Busra Özturk, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Either the Western countries will think that the dictators ousted by the Arab Spring have been replaced by pro-Shariah powers that must be stopped immediately, or the provocative act in Libya and...
A Black Mom-in-Chief Is Revolutionary
by Tami Winfrey Harris, Clutch Magazine, USA - What white feminists get wrong about Michelle Obama....
Embassies under Attack over Anti-Islam Video
by Rosalind Jordan, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Violent protests in Tunisia, Yemen, Sudan and elsewhere as crowds target US, UK and German embassies....
The Democrats’ Missed Opportunity
by Michelle Chen, In These Times, USA - In failing to link immigrant rights and women’s rights, DNC speakers overlooked how injustices interlock....
Public Security - the Greatest Casualty of the Drug War
by Laura Carlsen, America's Program, Mexico - Why does the U.S. government continue to send millions of tax dollars to fight the drug war, as they close down schools for lack of funds?...
Why We're Striking in Chicago
by Karen Lewis, Common Dreams, USA - We will walk the picket lines. We will talk to parents. We will talk to clergy. We will talk to the community. We will talk to anyone who will listen—we demand a fair...
The Myth That Japan Is Broke: The World's Largest "Debtor" Is Now the World's Largest Creditor
by Ellen Brown, Truthout, USA - Japan's massive government debt conceals massive benefits for the Japanese people, with lessons for the US debt "crisis."...
Widespread War on Reproductive Rights
by Lynsi Burton, Yes!, USA - National polls show that most of the public supports birth control and abortion rights. So what’s with the trend of trying to limit them?...
Exactly How Many US Soldiers Are in Guatemala and What Do They Do?
by Barbara Schieber, Guatemala Times, Guatemala - First you have “military advisors”, then you have “military trainers”, then you have boots on the ground and a full scaled war....
Balancing the GOP Tripwire on Immigration
by Myriam Marquez, Miami Herald, USA - The face of the Republican Party may be white and the hair graying, but the number of young, dynamic Hispanic leaders on display at the GOP convention is telling. Are they “window dressing,”...
The Arts of Labor Day
by Nadine Bloch, Nonviolent Action Network, USA - This Labor Day weekend has me thinking about the varied contributions of labor unions to U.S. culture. One could even argue that the history of organized labor is a history of defining...
California's Historic Move to Ban Gay Conversion 'Therapy'
by Lindsay Abrams, The Atlantic, USA - The state's landmark legislation highlights the sordid, fascinating past of homosexual 'treatments' -- from DIY electroshocks to testicular transplants....
Romneys Cast Aside "Moderate" Record on Abortion, Social Issues in Appeal to Extremist GOP
by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, USA - Mitt Romney’s embrace of the Republican Party’s call for a federal ban on abortion stands in stark contrast to his record as Massachusetts governor, one of his many shifting stances over the years...
Fantasy Women of the GOP
by Jessica Valenti, The Nation, USA - What Romney, Akin, and their ilk don’t understand is that women’s anger isn’t about “one word” or one politician—it’s about an ethos, a Republican ideology steeped in misogyny and willful ignorance....
Vanuatu: Looking for a Little Recognition
by Courtney Brooks, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - Very few people have heard of Vanuatu. But despite its obscurity, the tiny Pacific island nation has found itself in the middle of a behind-the-scenes struggle between Russia and the West....
Day Care Expense Rivals College Cost, Fuels Social Problems
by Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, USA - Childcare costs for an infant at a day care center may be more expensive than instate-college tuition, according to a new study. US childcare policy, says experts, is riddled with problems that...
A Walk to Heal theTar Sands
by Kristin Moe, Yes!, USA - Take an 8-mile trek with indigenous groups through one of the world's largest ecological dead zones, and you might find something lifegiving....
An Open Letter to Rep. Akin from a Woman Who Got Pregnant from Rape
by Shauna Prewitt, xoJane, USA - My name is Shauna Prewitt. You do not know me, but you should. I am one of the approximately 25,000 women who every year become pregnant as a result of rape, and I would...
Everything You've Heard about Failing Schools Is Wrong
by Kristina Rizga, Mother Jones, USA - Attendance: up. Dropout rates: plummeting. College acceptance: through the roof. My mind-blowing year inside a "low-performing" school....
The Danger of Laughing at Todd Akin
by Ilyse Hogue, The Nation, USA - The impact of Akin's effort to redefine the terms of this debate reaches beyond this one race. In the multi-dimensional chess that shapes public opinion, the game is less about individual elections and...
The Trendification of Brooklyn and the Perils of a Successful Urban Brand
by Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic: Cities, USA - Depending on who you talk to, the borough of Brooklyn is a great urban success story, a painful hipster cliché, or a provincial backwater....
Paul Ryan's Unpopular (but Unknown) Ideas
by Molly Ball, The Atlantic, USA - The specifics of the vice presidential nominee's budget proposals poll poorly, but most Americans still aren't familiar with them....
Marchers Demand Justice for Ramarley Graham
by Lucy McKeon, The Nation, USA - “If you look at the actual effect of policing practices—the sheer scale of them in New York City during Bloomberg-Kelly versus Giuliani—you could make a strong argument that police practices are worse, that...
Forget "All": Why Most Women Never Even Get Half
by Sherrilyn Ifill, Beacon Broadside, USA - Slaughter’s piece fails to recognize that women in the 1% have real power to transform the work/family reality for women at the economic bottom, who are seeking the luxury of the kind of...
Chicago's Dark Legacy of Police Torture
by Liliana Segura, The Nation, USA - At the Area 2 Violent Crimes Unit, Police Commander Jon Burge had overseen and participated in the systemic torture of an untold number of African-American men, dating back to the early 1970s. They...
Women in the War Room
by Shira Toeplitz, Campaigns & Elections, USA - Are female operatives finally breaking through a male-dominated industry?...
Brooklyn Women Make Their Building Theirs
by Laura Gottesdiener, Nonviolent Action Network, USA - For over a year, Lopez, Trelles and Ixtilico have been knocking on doors, holding meetings and organizing a multi-building rent strike that has now captured local and national attention....
Medical Bills Drive Many U.S. Women into Debt
by Maggie Fox, MSNBC, USA - “Women, particularly those in their childbearing years, are uniquely at risk for being unable to afford the care they need, having trouble with medical bills, and having high out-of-pocket costs,” said Commonwealth Fund vice...
Duma Ratifies Adoption Agreements
by Ekaterina Zabrovskaya, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Russia - Russia’s adoption deals with US and France to enhance control over the lives of children adopted from Russia....
Anti-Contraception Activists React to SCOTUS Ruling
by Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches, USA - The new strategy by anti-choice groups, though, is to try to portray Obamacare advocates as waging a war on women, attempting to turn the war on women frame on its head....
On (Gay) Marriage, Divorce and Statistics
by Nora Ephron, The Nation, USA - My friend Merrill Markoe once wrote that one of the most compelling reasons to hope that gay marriage becomes legal is that gays may end up doing for marriage what they do for...
An Erotic Politics: What's the Future of the LGBTQ Movement?
by Laura Flanders, Truthout, USA - June is LGBT Pride month in the US and there has been a lot to celebrate. From marriage to the military, LGBT people have won acceptance, but that doesn't mean we've banished, poverty, terror...
Don't Like Sports? Three Other Reasons to Be a Fan of Title IX
by Bryce Covert, The Nation, USA - This Saturday marked the fortieth anniversary of Title IX, the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of sex....
Why Many Young Adults Might Lose Coverage If Health Law Falls
by Julie Rovner, NPR, USA - Lots of those young adults are no longer dependents of their parents for tax purposes. So if the employer continues to provide coverage to that adult child, the value of that insurance could be...
Healthcare and Scalia's Broken Moral Compass
by Ilyse Hogue, The Nation, USA - Buried deep in hearings filled with legalese and judicial sparring was a short exchange that illuminates an American ideal that truly hangs in the balance with this decision—the idea that in a civilized...
Obamacare Cronyism Makes Bad Medicine
by Mary Theroux, The Beacon, USA - Emails released last week between representatives of major pharmaceutical companies (“big Pharma”) and top Obama administration officials, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, reveal insider-dealing sufficient to kill any remaining Hope...
The Non-Case against Gay Parenting
by Jill Filipovic, Guardian, UK - This methodologically suspect study is a rearguard effort to arm opponents of same-sex marriage, but it doesn't stand scrutiny....
Obama's Drones
by Khadija Patel, Daily Maverick, South Africa - As Barack Obama’s first term in office descends into the cacophony of a re-election campaign, he may position himself as being good for the economy, but he is also acting like a...
Firing Day at the Charter School
by Nancy Bloom, CoLab Radio, USA - We are driven like cattle to collect mounds of data, to divvy the data up into tidy and irrelevant skill categories, and finally to create individual action plans to remediate each student’s poor...
Mexico Drug War Displaces Families in Sinaloa Highlands
by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, USA - In Mexico, at least 1,500 Sinaloa families in the Sierra Madre highlands have fled fighting between the Zetas gang and the Sinaloa drug cartel in the last month....
Kicking Out the Klan in N.C.
by Trish Kahle, Socialist Worker, USA - North Carolina activists scored a much-needed win on May 26, when grassroots pressure forced the Ku Klux Klan to move a publicized cross-burning out of the state. Alongside the victory, organizing for the...
10 Things Billionaires Probably Don't Want You To Know
by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, Huffington Post, USA - Our money-obsessed society tends to celebrate great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent, innovation or accomplishment. In reality, spectacular fortunes are more likely the result of luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or...
Same-Sex Marriage Brings Healing to Me—and My Tribe
by Madeline Ostrander, Yes!, USA - Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage rights within the Suquamish Tribe and found herself on a personal journey toward self-acceptance....
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