Why Trump’s Second Amendment Comments are More Dangerous than You Think
Donald Trump seems to be suggesting that some kind of collective act of resistance may be necessary to stop an overreaching government should Clinton win the November election.
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The Legacy of Berta Cáceres: What Environmentalists Can Learn From Human Rights Groups
/in Philanthropy News Digest/by Frank SmythDoes anyone doubt a link between the work of frontline environmentalists and global warming? Yet how many activists, let alone the public, are aware of the rising murder toll of local environmental activists?
Why Can’t We Do Anything About Guns?
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythThe only thing stopping real gun reform in the United States is a paranoid fear that some future, tyrannical regime would seize Americans’ guns and impose a totalitarian state.
Despite Widespread Calls For Him to Go, the NRA is Stuck With Nugent
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythSimilar to the way NRA bylaws control who gets elected to the board, the same bylaws control how a director may be removed once elected.
Cat Scratch Fever—Is Ted Nugent’s Racism Too Much for Republicans?
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythHow will the NRA respond to Nugent’s anti-Semitic rant? The NRA’s polished leadership has long walked a fine line between extremism and respectability.
“This is War”: How the CIA Justifies Torture
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythThe Defense Department denies offering instruction in abusive interrogation techniques. But U.S. Army Special Forces advisers say they trained select Salvadoran soldiers in what they call “negative-incentive” methods.
Six months after Sandy Hook, grassroot groups and the gun debate
/in MSNBC/by Frank SmythAfter the horror of the Newtown shooting, gun reform advocates expected to finally see a change. Yet six months later nothing had changed.