The world of online poker has never been the same since the tumultuous and disruptive events ofBlack Friday. On April 15, 2011, internet poker – particularly in the United States – was dealt a heavy blow from which it spent the next few years slowly recovering. The consequences of Black ...
Disturbing as the prospect of bypassing the popular vote in GOP-controlled battlegrounds may be, it’s but one of several liabilities in the electoral system Trump and his flunkies are trying to achieve this fall, ranging from complex legal fights todeclaring absentee ballots fraudulentbefore they’...
The French are far more interested in work-life balance than we are. The standard work week is not 40 hours; it's 35. They also get five weeks of vacation, at a minimum, and they actually take it. Americans average 11 days of PTO, and they feel guilty taking it. Shoveling your fo...
A central argument in the Black Lives Matter movement is that (white) cops are disproportionately killing Black men, especially unarmed Black men. It's Exhibit A in a long list of exhibits that prove systemic, structural, and institutional racism in America's police. This argument has been rep...
Even the border cops are generally a good lot. French and Italian cops, they’re right up there with the Eastern Europeans and the US.The only other inconsistency I found was that in Scandinavia, “stupid” is normally applied to Norway, not Sweden. This is probably because within ten ...
Eight to ten percent of male homicides in America are committed by a police officer. That is a shocking statistic, but sadly does not surprise me. It sickens me. African Americans are five times more likely to be incarcerated than whites, and the disparity between the sentences that people ...
Capitalism and communism operate on the same principles; it just looks different as a brand. coke zero or pepsi max? one highlights the "zero" factor and the other the "max" factor, but in the end of the day they are exactly the same claiming to have less calories, so is it zero or...
Capitalism and communism operate on the same principles; it just looks different as a brand. coke zero or pepsi max? one highlights the "zero" factor and the other the "max" factor, but in the end of the day they are exactly the same claiming to have less calories, so is it zero or...
Republicans have always had a good chance of winning at least one house of Congress in the upcoming midterms. As things stand, it looks a lot more likely that they'll take control of the House, but they could also win the Senate. So what would they do if they did win control of eit...
Carcerality is more than government programs and corporate surveillance. In a tangible and everyday sense, there are ways that we all participate in, witness, and either support or resist systems of carcerality in our everyday lives. PG Watkins, an activist withNo New Jails Detroit, eloquently...