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Tag: Social issues

  • Practicing Vulnerability: A Black Man’s Struggle toward Understanding and Belonging

    From an early age, most boys absorb the message—whether stated directly or modeled by the men and women in their lives—that to be a man is to be tough. I learned that early. In my household, crying got me grounded or spanked, or both. And, of course, I was expected not to cry about the […]

  • Are Judges at the European Court of Human Rights Worse than Terrorists?

    Imagine a train hurtling out of control, its passengers’ lives in peril. One traveler reaches for the emergency brake, only for others to disable it, dooming the locomotive to crash into a crowded town and claim hundreds of lives. What charges would follow? Under European criminal law, culpability hinges on intent, context, and motive—ranging from […]

  • The Netherlands, Bonaire, and Climate Change Obligations

    It was another bead in the string of jurisprudence and case law in climate litigation. Previous sparkling examples include Urgenda Foundation (2019), KlimaSeniorinnen (2024) and the significant Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice delivered in July 2025. The District Court of The Hague, in its January 28 judgment regarding the effects of climate […]

  • NYS: Why Are Authoritarian Entities Needed to Create Charter Schools if They Are So Popular?

    NYS: Why Are Authoritarian Entities Needed to Create Charter Schools if They Are So Popular?

    The charter school industry has been operating in overdrive for several decades, trying desperately to convince everyone that charter schools are amazing, unassailable, and always in high demand. But if charter schools are marvelous and popular why have charter school promoters spent years using top-down heavy-handed entities comprised of unelected pro-privatization individuals to impose charter […]

  • To Be a Revolutionary Social Worker, or to be a Radical Worker, that is the Question

    To Be a Revolutionary Social Worker, or to be a Radical Worker, that is the Question

    The dichotomy between the social worker as a nine-to-five state agent and five-nine activist is a crucial one. The question can be summarised as: is there space, willingness and scope within social work to engage with broader structural issues that affect the lives of the people we work with? I spent an hour with the […]

  • Cannabis and the Closure of Agnes J. Johnson Charter School

    Cannabis and the Closure of Agnes J. Johnson Charter School

    Privately-operated charter schools fail and close every week. The top four reasons include declining enrollment, mismanagement, financial malfeasance, and poor academic performance. Such closures are usually sudden, abrupt, and take place mid-year, leaving many parents, students, teachers, and principals stunned and stressed about what to do next. Currently, 69 students are enrolled in the K-12 […]

  • The War Profiteers Feast While the Poor Starve

    The world is being reshaped—and disfigured—by those who profit from war. We often describe conflict as a diplomatic failure or a geopolitical tragedy, but beneath these narratives lies a harsher truth: war has become one of the most profitable industries on earth. A small network of corporations, financiers, and political actors grows richer with every […]

  • Small Town Politics Imbued with Arrested Development, Retrograde Thinking and a Whole Lotta MAGA

    Small Town Politics Imbued with Arrested Development, Retrograde Thinking and a Whole Lotta MAGA

    Listen here to our talk, airing on my radio show, Finding Fringe: Voices from the Edge. It is a microsm of AmeriKKKa’s large and small communities. Heidi Lambert was voted into Waldport, Oregon’s volunteer mayoral position but was fired, then had to file a state ethics complaint, and now those fifth graders are running a […]

  • Wealth, Authoritarianism, and Media

    It’s official. This tormented, heated, traumatised planet is now home to over 3,000 billionaires. (That number was reached last year.) In October 2025, Elon Musk became the first man to have wealth exceeding half a trillion dollars. These developments could still take alongside the fact that one in four people across the globe face hunger. […]

  • Three-Month Old Baltimore Charter School May Be Closing

    Three-Month Old Baltimore Charter School May Be Closing

    Poor planning, leadership, and charter school applications are not uncommon in the charter school sector. Such recurrent problems not only give traditional host public school districts big headaches, they also ensure a range of foreseeable intractable problems in privately-operated charter schools, especially when everything is rushed and not well-thought-out. Privatization efforts in education and other […]

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