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Kanakuk Kamps leaders say they acted swiftly after learning Pete Newman abused campers. Survivors and ex-employees say the camp didn't do enough. Springfield News-Leader, Springfield News-Leader

21 dead in Texas, and no hope in sight

This is not going to be a helpful post, a healthy post, a post of solutions and fixes, a post that makes sense of anything, that catalyzes what we’re all going through, that attempts to be op…

We are all fair game to be sacrificed.

Plus: Our gun debate doom loop.

On Tuesday, after a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers in a Texas elementary school, Sen. Chris Murphy stood on the Senate floor and implored his colleagues to stop mass shootings. “I’m here on this floor to beg,” said Murphy, pressing his palms together in prayerful supplication. “To literally get down on my hands […]

I tried to step away from WordPress once. In 2019 I moved this site to Hugo. I was looking for a simpler workflow and more performant site but, while I found the latter, maintaining it was anything but simple and I wound up back on WordPress just a year later. Today I find myself generally content w...

Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China's Uyghur detention system.

The Republican flip-flop on white domestic terrorists should have political consequences by Charlie Sykes

The GOP's selective outrage did not go unnoticed, even among some Trump supporters.

Plus #MeToo at MIT.

It’s ‘never admit fault.’

The abuse investigation has uncovered more evil than even I imagined.