26 Sep, 2024
From a Hurting Heart: On the Execution of Marcellus Williams
From a Hurting Heart: On the Execution of Marcellus Williams by Laura Finley 504 words There’s no other way to...
26 Sep, 2024
24 Aug, 2024
The Kids Are Never Fair Game
The Kids Are Never Fair Game by Laura Finley 391 words Like many others, I wept watching Vice-President candidate Tim Walz’s son...
25 Apr, 2023
Stop Hiring and Re-Hiring Terrible Officers
Stop Hiring and Re-Hiring Terrible Officers by Laura Finley 804 words General advice given to young people is to do...
28 Jan, 2023
Say No to Expanding the Death Penalty
Say No to Expanding the Death Penalty by Laura Finley 593 words Republican leaders have a death penalty problem. During...
21 Jul, 2022
The problems with seeking the death penalty in the Nikolas Cruz case
There is no doubt about Nikolas Cruz’s culpability for the mass murder of 17 people and the injury of 17 others at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. His horrific actions affected many more than those who were injured or killed and will leave a lifetime scar on far too many people.
26 May, 2022
Supreme Court’s latest decision devastating for death row inmates
On May 23, 2022, the Supreme Court issued yet another decision that does greater injustice to the US criminal (in)justice system...
3 Feb, 2022
The Dangerous Trend of the “Parents Rights” Movement
Given the current political divide and his ambitions to be the next Republican presidential candidate it should not be surprising that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said he supports what has been called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill going through the state House of Representatives.
1 Dec, 2021
Facing the Facts About Gun Violence in the U.S.
Facing the Facts About Gun Violence in the U.S. by Laura Finley 502 words A day after yet another tragic...
2 Apr, 2021
Ban the Death Penalty for Those with Serious Mental Illness
The death penalty is an antiquated and barbaric form of punishment. This is why most nations have ended it.
30 Jan, 2021
No More Anti-Protest Laws
The right to peaceful assembly is enshrined in the Bill of Rights because it is critically important...
18 Jan, 2021
A Perspective on January 6 from Peacebuilders
On January 6 the world watched as pro-Trump supporters orchestrated a shocking...
16 Dec, 2020
Dr., Not Mrs. or Kiddo
Last week, Joseph Epstein, who teaches at Northwestern University, penned an outrageous op-ed that...
14 Oct, 2020
Why women should not vote for Trump
Given his track record with women—dozens of allegations of sexual misconduct, horrible rhetoric about “grabbing them by the ^ussy” and more—it should not be a surprise that Donald Trump is no friend to female voters...
22 Jun, 2020
Why “Libtard” is Lazy and Offensive
“Having spent some time perusing social media in the last few weeks, I am appalled at the words some will...
4 Jun, 2020
On the Fetishization of Protest
“The protests that have spread across the country in the last week due to the murder of George Floyd by...