The Take
If you are finding ways to defend tear gassing migrant children, you are a bad person
Disturbing images coming from our southern border, showing the tear gassing of migrants, are shocking people around the country. However, not everyone is shaken up by the graphic portrayal of mothers and shoeless toddlers running away from smoke plumes, choking on...
The FBI Says Hate Crimes Are on the Rise, Law Enforcement is Part of the Problem
The FBI just released the bureau’s latest statistics on hate crimes in America, and the top line numbers increased dramatically in 2017: The number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI increased about 17 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year,...
Make Sure Your Disgust of Anti-Semitism Lives Alongside a Disdain for White Supremacy
When a White nationalist gunman murdered eleven people in a Pittsburgh synagogue last weekend, the international Jewish community entered a collective moment of mourning. The history of global anti-Semitism stretches back millennia, and hate directed towards the...
A Hate-Filled Week in Trump’s America
A man walks into a grocery store, shoots and kills two Black shoppers, telling a witness “whites don’t shoot whites”. Days later, another man enters a synagogue, opening fire and cutting short the life of eleven people in the deadliest attack on Jews...
