Imara Jones says the debt deal is an extension of the grand bargain Washington’s leaders made with Wall Street nearly four years ago: to save the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Liliana Segura visits the largest maximum-security prison in the country, where an evangelical warden has made sure prisoners lives look as much like “slavery times” as possible.
After all, as Channing Kennedy writes, Spidey is from New York City, a place where radioactive-spider roulette is, demographically speaking, likelier than not to result in a black or Latino protagonist-to-be.
Justice Dept Sues Alabama Over Nation’s Harshest Anti-Immigrant Law
Attorney General Eric Holder repeated the point the Justice Department has made in previous suits: states can’t usurp the feds’ right to control immigration. But federal policy encourages them to do just that.
Chicago Police Shooting Spree? 43 Shot Already in 2011; 16 Dead Chicago Chicago police have already shot nearly as many residents as all of last year—most recently a 13-year-old boy. Cops argue it’s because residents have “a total lack of respect and fear.” Residents say cops are “targeting black children.”