Justice

To the Harvard Law Class of 2012 and Overachieving Graduates Everywhere

Ron Davis | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Religion, Harvard Law School, Justice, Graduation, Family Values, Public Service, Class of 2012, College News
Ron Davis

Hard work can be satisfying and success feels good. But I urge you to pursue a harder goal than the many mountains you will certainly summit. Accomplishments matter, but are nothing without love, morality, family, belonging and intimacy.

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Sierra Leone Needs a New Set of Curtains

Lisa Schultz | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Justice, Africa, Charles Taylor, Make Peace 2012, Peace, Ngos, Lisa Schultz, The Peace Project, Sierra Leone, Impact News
Lisa Schultz

I've learned that in order to appreciate all that this country and its people have to offer, you have to learn how not to see things here through Western eyes.

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Love As A Public Virtue

John Thatamanil | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Justice, Love, Kindness, Religion and Politics, Christianity, Religion News
John Thatamanil

Fairness, kindness and love seem like ethereal notions empty of force in a world of power politics and free wheeling capitalism. Those who seek to order public life by "the soft" private virtue of love are said to be naïve or downright foolish.

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What if Zimmerman Gets an All White Jury?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: All White Juries, Trials, George Zimmerman, Race, Justice, Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman Jury, Zimmerman Trial, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Zimmerman case jury may be fair and impartial. But to pretend that racial bias doesn't exist in racially charged trials is self-serving and dangerous. His case could again cast an ugly glare on jury race bias.

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VAWA: Because Every Man, Woman and Child in America Is at Risk and Every Crime Victim Deserves Justice

Christine Pelosi | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Violence Against Women Act, Law Enforcement, Native American, Rape, Vawa, Rape Kits, Joe Biden, Equal Justice, Immigrants, Democrats, Sexual Assault, Lgbt, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Wasilia, Crime Victims, Justice, Rick Scott, Tea Party, John McCain, Republicans, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

It is said April is the cruelest month and certainly this April Florida Governor Rick Scott landed the cruelest act, vetoing funding for rape crisis c...

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Does the Invisible Hand Really Know Best?

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Adam Smith, Laissez Faire, Thomas Friedman, Philosophy, Markets, Michael Sandel, Philosopher, Democracy, Conservative, Liberal, Good Society, Libertarian, Michael Gerson, Harvard, What Money Can't Buy, Moral, Common Good, Invisible Hand, Freedom, Moral Limits, E.J. Dionne, Free Market, Justice, Book Reviews, Books News
Jeffrey Abelson

Is the free market really free? Or does it come at the expense of civic values we neglect at our peril? That's one of many questions I found myself pondering after reading What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel.

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PHOTOS: The Crazy Rise Of Electronic Music

Katie Bain | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Avicii, Coachella Headliners, Coachella 2012 Lineup, Kaskade, Swedish House Mafia, Datsik, Coachella, Coachella 2012, Justice, Coachella Electronic Headliners, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles News
Katie Bain

If Coachella 2012 is remembered for one thing, it's likely to go down in history as the year electronic music dominated the lineup, from the festival's longstanding dance nexus the Sahara Tent to the traditionally rock-oriented main stage.

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Do Babies Know Right From Wrong?

| Lena Groeger | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Infants, Baby Psychology, Video, Children, Child Psychology, Baby, Infant Psychology, Parenting, Babies, Justice, Fairness, Science News

Well before “not fair!” becomes a staple phrase of your child’s spoken repertoire, he or she might already have a fundamental grasp of right an...

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Annie Dillard, Wheel Of Fortune And Good Friday

Lisa Hickman | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Psalms, Religion News, Death Penalty, Centurion Ministries, Justice, Annie Dillard, Good Friday, Easter, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Christianity, Religion News
Lisa Hickman

Good Friday is a day that leaves us spinning with questions about the nature of God. Is God's hand in this? Or does this crazy world spin accidentally? How do we know?

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The Alchemy of Forgiveness

Robert Koehler | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Fambul Tok, Civil War, Healing, Forgiveness, Justice, Sierra Leone, Impact News
Robert Koehler

Human-rights activist John Caulker was convinced that within the broken traditions of his native country -- the culture of vital connection, of truth-telling and forgiveness -- lay the seeds of reconciliation. He knew that virtually everyone in Sierra Leone longed for reconciliation.

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Finding the Wisdom We Need to Survive

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: George Zimmerman, Returning to the Teachings, Disarmament, Stand Your Ground Law, Shaima Alawadi, Robert Bales Afghanistan, Trayvon Martin, Justice, Forgiveness, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Robert Koehler

I'm far more interested in forgiveness than justice. I say this just to calm myself down after a morning of media overkill, so to speak. There are s...

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Defending Due Process in the Trayvon Martin Case

Ari Weisbrot | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Al Sharpton, George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, Sanford, Crime, Florida, Justice, Guns, Crime News
Ari Weisbrot

We love drama. We love to protest. We love to fight for a cause. That's what makes us American. But, what also makes us American is due process, justice, the presumption of innocence.

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Demjanjuk's Just Epitaph

Tom Teicholz | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Crime and Punishment, Sobibor, Justice, Germany, Demjanjuk, Nazi War Crimes, U.S. Justice, Israel, Holocaust, Nazi War Criminals, Trawniki, World News
Tom Teicholz

The recent death of John Demjanjuk, 91, in a nursing home in Germany, brings to a close one of the most extensive and most contested Nazi war crimes prosecution in history.

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Raise Your Voice For Trayvon

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Trayvon Martin Case, Trayvon Martin, Young Black Males, Benjamin Todd Jealous, Race, Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman, Justice Department, Trayvon, Naacp, Ben Jeaous NAACP, Trayvon Martin Sanford, Black Men, Racism, Department of Justice, Justice, Sanford Florida, Ben Jealous, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Power & Politics, Power Outsiders, Black Voices News
Benjamin Todd Jealous

All of last week, I was in Sanford, Florida, pursuing justice for Trayvon Martin. I listened to community concerns about the Sanford Police Department, and stood with Trayvon's parents and 30,000 others in Sanford, a town with only 50,000 residents.

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Might Kennedy's Plea Bargain Decisions Reveal How He Will Swing on Health Care?

David Coleman | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Roberts Court, Supreme Court, Jury Trial, Crime, Justice Scalia, Supreme Court Decisions, Health Insurance, Plea Bargaining, Justice Kennedy, Justice, Obama Health Care, Justices, Plea Negotiation, Politics News
David Coleman

One can hope Justice Kennedy's approach of seeing the world as it really functions, and not through ideological glasses, will incline him to be a swing vote to affirm the constitutionality of imposing insurance obligations for health care.

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A License to Steal: The Perils of Questionable Legal Representation

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Attorneys, Law, Lawyers, Dumb Crime, Crime, American Dream, Justice, Injustice, American Bar Association, Crime News
Anthony Papa

Cases like mine give the profession of lawyering a black eye. Individuals need to be careful when choosing a lawyer.

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Constructive Conversations on Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality and the -isms of Our Day

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Politics, White Privelege, Trayvon Martin, Lgbtq, illdoctrine.com, Sexism, Jay Smooth, Racism, George Zimmerman, Justice, Race, Politics News
Bruce Reyes-Chow

Over the past week the airwaves have been filled with reporting, commentary and rants about the Florida shooting. This has again made clear that issues of race are not only bubbling under the surface of our societal discourse, but they are spilling over into our politics.

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A Mother's Reflections on the Death of Trayvon Martin

Frances Cudjoe Waters | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Color-Blindness, Fear, Florida, Police, Mother, Trayvon Martin, Walking While Black, Black Boys, Boys, Justice, African Americans, New York, Dallas, Black Voices News
Frances Cudjoe Waters

I am scared. It is not a new fear, but one that has never gone away, and is heightened as I look at my three beautiful boys. These precious ones, for whom my husband and I have lovingly and willingly sacrificed much.

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A Wild Goose Second Chance for Refugees From Politicized Religion

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Community Service, Politics, Religion, Church, Wild Goose Festival, Religious Right, Justice, God, Peace, Faith, Spirituality, Religion News
Frank Schaeffer

Wild Goose has connected and re-connected me to people I'd written off. I'd presumed I knew all about "them." I did not.

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Standing Ground in Sanford

Gideon Resnick | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Law, George Zimmerman, Stand Your Ground, Shooting, Trayvon Martin, Racism, Florida, Justice, Justice Department, Death, Trayvon Martin Killing, Sanford, Sanford Florida, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Crime News
Gideon Resnick

What is more shocking than the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is that a statute of Florida law, referred to as "Stand your Ground," precluded the shooter from facing immediate legal repercussions.

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The Death Of Innocence And A Plea For Life

Jamie Arpin-Ricci | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Christianity, Religion, Politics, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Social Justice, Justice, Death, Video, Religion News
Jamie Arpin-Ricci

While I know many of my fellow Christians do not agree with me on this point, my faith makes it impossible for me to condone capital punishment.

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A Rupture In The Youth Pipeline To Prison

Jacqueline Caster | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Advocacy, Activism, Everychild Foundation, Youth Crime, l.A. Gangs, Juvenile Courts, Everychild Restorative Justice Center, Youth Incarceration, Los Angeles Gangs, Prison Reform, Youth, Youth Detention, Crime, Juvenile Justice, Los Angeles, Criminal Justice, Diversion, Prison, Justice, Impact News
Jacqueline Caster

It's time America finally bucks the influence of those who financially benefit from an expanded prison industry as well as the "tough on crime" contingency and invest serious dollars in a "diversion track" to perfectly parallel the juvenile justice system of incarceration.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Mike Wallis and Inge Rademeyer on Good for Nothing

Dan Persons | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Violence, Action-Adventure, Justice, Emotion, New Zealand, Romance, Drama, Controversy, Death, Indie, Sergio Leone, Good for Nothing, Inge Rademeyer, Comedy, Debut Feature, Off Beat, Mike Wallis, Spaghetti Western, Pavlova Western, Gritty, Cohen Holloway, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

With Mike Wallis directing, writing, and producing and Inge Rademeyer as star and fellow producer, Good for Nothing takes advantage of its much-vaunted New Zealand locales for some Sergio Leone/John Ford impact, and throws in some impertinent, Kiwi attitude for kicks.

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How Jesus Launched "Occupy Temple" Protests

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Church, Justice, John 2:13-22, Bv-Sunday, Lent, Jesus Christ, Teachings of Jesus, Black Voices News
Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr.

I wonder what Jesus would do if he were to walk through our church doors some Sunday morning and see the merchandise we sell in our church and the clothes we wear there. Have we become so materialistic that we have turned our houses of prayer into dens of robbers and markets?

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Revolutionary Love

Eileen Flanagan | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: The Bible, Revolution, Racism, Sustainability, Justice, Love, Faith, Marriage Equality, Africa, Climate Change, Religion News
Eileen Flanagan

Within every spiritual tradition that I'm familiar with, there is a prophetic voice that calls us to love in a bigger, deeper way, a way that fosters compassion and transformation, not apathy.

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