Doing His Job: RIP Shah Marai

As journalists stateside squabble over a comedian’s jokes, long-suffering media in Afghanistan mourn the deaths of ten colleagues among the at least 25 people killed in twin suicide bombings in…

Miss Peru Beauty Queens Go Rogue

Talk about resistance in unlikely places. Facing horrific rates of violence against women- the week before, the hashtag #PeruPaisdeVioladores (Peru Country of Rapists) was trending – the contestants for Sunday’s…

Wyoming Lives and Lets Tutu

In these mean-spirited times, a sliver of grace and good: After Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi told students at Greybull High School, “I know a guy who wears a tutu and…

Our Revolution Urges Release of Oscar López Rivera

Our Revolution recently released a video calling for the release of Oscar López Rivera, the longest-held Puerto Rican political prisoner in history. Lopez Rivera, a Vietnam War veteran who was…

In the Best Interest of Justice: Free Peltier

In a “truly extraordinary” and evidently unprecedented act, a former prosecutor of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, now 72, ill, and in his 41st year in prison for a shooting…