Arizona has some of the harshest penalties for prostitution in the US. Even the Phoenix Police Department and District Attorney’s office see…
Jordan Flaherty
This article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website, along with this TV story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGQaF7-63iM, See also this additional report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a11epOpRmBY…
An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents…
Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social…
Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments…
Women With a Vision (WWAV), a New Orleans advocacy and service organization that provides health care and other support for poor women…
On April 20, 2010, a reckless attitude towards the safety of the Gulf Coast by BP, as well as Transocean and Halliburton, caused a…
At a recent panel discussion on the Occupy movement, a left-leaning professor from New York University speculated that identity politics—the prioritizing of…
When I heard that my name was featured in a New York City Police Department report, I should have been outraged. I had followed revelations…
As this weekend’s storm has reminded us, hurricanes can be a threat to U.S. cities on the East Coast as well the…
