Category: January 2017

by Editorial Board January 27, 2017 1
January 2017 Spotlight On: Race

Occupation as Resistance: The Dakota Access Pipeline and American Indian Activism

When the water protectors (or, if you support the Dakota Access Pipeline, protesters, rioters, and troublemakers) formed the Sacred Stone Camp in April, they faced an insurmountable challenge: a semi-built, big corporation and bank backed, stakeholder supported “black snake” (or, if you support Dakota Access, pipeline) that was slowly creeping underneath their land and near their water source.

by William Horne January 20, 2017 2
January 2017 Top Stories

Unthinkable Obamacare

As the death of Obamacare looms like a grim reaper over so many of us with preexisting conditions, lower incomes, or non-traditional forms of employment (Uber, anyone?), it seems worthwhile to examine some the primary obstacles to public acceptance of the Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare).