Last week, a video circulated showing an all too familiar scene of three white police officers beating down a black suspect. After he was pinned to the ground, one of the cops repeatedly kicked him in a rage while another threatened the outraged crowd with a taser gun. After the ...read more

One of America's favorite ways to justify escalating hostilities with another country is to breathlessly decry the awfulness of said country. The media will regularly report on human rights abuses in China or food lines on Soviet Russia or, most recently, the inhumane prison ...read more