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A Historical Haiku on Human Conflict 26 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
Kirk J. Schneider has written a synopsis of human history that he calls a “historical haiku.” He explains how polarized thinking, rather than observing each other and our world in all its complexities...
Fear, Safety, Control, and Resistance: Shifting the Dialogue on Policing 22 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
Recent events have stirred up new conversations about policing, crime, and violence among white people not targeted by policing. I hope that we can use this moment to examine our beliefs and negotiate...
Immigration Stories That Will Belong to America 15 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
The thirteen stories in Lam’s most recent collection, Birds of Paradise Lost, are populated by refugees of the Vietnam War who came to the Bay Area, as well as their children and friends—but each stor...
To Have and Have Not: The Latest from Edeet Ravel and Jim Harrison 13 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
The book's certainly as nostalgic as Tennyson's Memoriam, and no less melancholic, but unlike legions of other books written on loss, a sweet irony pervades it and makes the work fittingly beautifully...
Toward a Non-Binary Discussion of Race: Thoughts on Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 3 Aug 2013 | 03:03 am
The killing of Trayvon Martin moved me, like so many other Black people, to my core. Americans talk a lot about “race” but are bound up in a highly specious construction of it. We need to have real di...
Responses to the Prosecution of Whistle Blowers 2 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
NPR, mistakenly still identified as a liberal news source when in fact for the past decade at least it has been so worried about losing its funding that it has bent over backwards to accommodate gover...
Why Alabama’s Immigration Law is an Assault on Religious Values 2 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
Alabama's HB 56 criminalizes the ability of faithful people to provide sanctuary, transportation to needed services, and the basic care that the despicable Samaritan offered to one injured by society....
No Borders: Struggling for a Global Commons 31 Jul 2013 | 12:56 am
What distinguishes a No Borders politics from other immigrant-rights approaches is their refusal to settle for “fairer” immigration laws (higher numbers, access to legal statuses, and so on). Within a...
Immigration Reform and Faith Values: The Agenda of the Lamb 30 Jul 2013 | 01:15 pm
Comprehensive immigration reform is about the right thing to do. To really see how the Bible looks at the issue of immigration, and how we should deal with the 11 million undocumented immigrants that ...
Readers Respond: Letters from Summer 2013 30 Jul 2013 | 03:26 am
A NOTE ON LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: We welcome your responses to our articles. Send your letters to the editor to letters@tikkun.org. Please remember, however, not to attribute to Tikkun views other than...
