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Flag on the Play: How Anti-Trans Athlete Bills Impact Trans and Nonbinary Youth Off the Field
“It infiltrates kids’ minds in a way that they have to carry around this really deep emotional weight,” said Gonzales. “They know that the people that have the power to do good are instead using the most vulnerable population to amplify their own political platform.”
The Solitary Thousands: Locked Away in Connecticut’s Solitary Confinement Units
A nineteen-year-old Michael Braham was dressed in only his boxers, a t-shirt, and socks when guards came to his cell after breakfast and took him to the solitary confinement unit of Corrigan Correctional Institution in Uncasville, CT.
History’s Fallout: The Enola Gay Exhibit and Curating America’s Past
On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a B-29 U.S. Air Force military plane, dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. As the skies raged, silhouettes of men, women, and children were plastered onto building bricks. The casualties were immense: around 70,000 Japanese citizens perished. Three days later, Bockscar, another U.S. Air Force B-29 airplane, dropped the second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing 40,000 Japanese citizens.
The Last Frontier: Keeping the presses hot in Southeast Alaska
In the world of Southeast Alaskan journalism, all roads seem to lead to Larry Persily, whose story starts — serendipitously enough — with a classified ad.
Justice in the Dark: The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket
Just in the past few months, the Supreme Court has quietly passed a series of decisions related to immigration, religious liberty, and abortion restrictions in a matter of days. This process, colloquially referred to as the “shadow docket,” allows the Supreme Court to make accelerated unsigned decisions without oral arguments or rigorous deliberation.
Indigenizing Climate Activism: Vulnerability and Resilience on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Keyra Espinoza says that there are no words to describe her experience visiting Ingapirca, the ancient ruins of her Indigenous Cañari ancestors, in the summer of 2020. Located in the Southern Andes mountains of Ecuador, Ingapirca is a landscape Espinoza cherishes both for its wildlife and its deep spiritual meaning for her ancestral community.
The State of State Prosecution in CT
During the next gubernatorial primary, we can make criminal justice a sticking point by stressing the Governor’s power to shape the criminal justice landscape.