an unusually light six-month sentence, lest jail “have a severe impact on [Turner].” Persky also added that he thinks Turner “will not be a danger to others,” a perception that was perhaps aided by the letters friends and family...
Rachana Sunar, 22, lives in a village in Western Nepal. Her mission is to stop the age-old practice of child marriage, which is no easy feat. In another life, she would have been forced into marriage by now. She’d have a few kids and would be silenced at home. But she begged, ...
Or, it could happen hereagain.After all, it wasn’t too long ago in American history that millions of Americans were trampled under the heel of a repressive, anti-democratic kleptocracy and faced economic reprisals, violence, or death for any dissent. And nowhere was the iron grip of that ...
Obama made the right call in commuting Manning’s sentence, and it’s a sobering reminder of a general commitment to decent values that Obama’s successor utterly rejects. Obama didn’t always do what the liberal wing of the Democratic Party would have liked, but he often still did what wa...