Investigation finds retailers distributing COVID-19 vaccinations added requirements violating CDC policy
The original justification for proof-of-residency and ID requirements to get a COVID-19 vaccination were supposed to stop so-called “Vaccine Tourists” who sought access in other states that had better public distribution channels. Instead, the most...
Expansion of facial surveillance at airports seen as a growing threat to civil liberties
Over the last couple years, it has become increasingly clear that facial recognition technology doesn’t work well, and would be a civil liberties and privacy nightmare even if it did. But that has not stopped the Trump administration from moving forward with its...
Treasuring guns over people: Only a global pandemic could briefly pause America’s gun epidemic
The ten victims in Boulder and the eight in Atlanta were survivors. They had managed to weather the greatest public health crisis of our lifetime: an insidious and relentless virus, that for twelve months has decimated the planet and taken the lives of our a half a...
Who God should love: Why churches discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community in the name of religion
The Catholic Church doesn’t need to bless same-gender unions. The Southern Baptist Church doesn’t. The United Methodist Church doesn’t. No church needs to. God already blesses them — that is, if God is love in the way these churches all claim that God is. If God is...
A Privilege of Silence: White men have not done enough to call out the toxic perpetrators who are White men
America has a white male problem. If you’re living here and you’re not a white male, I likely don’t have to do much to convince you of that fact. You’ve been an eyewitness. You’ve had a front row seat to the horrors. You’ve likely been on the receiving end of the...
Atlanta spa shootings by White gunman appears to intersect gender-based violence, misogyny, and xenophobia
A white gunman was charged on March 17 with killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror nationwide through Asian American community that have increasingly been targeted during the...
