For the past six years, the news photographer Mary F. Calvert has been taking pictures that reveal the civilian lives of veterans with trauma that lingers long after their discharge from the military. Her journalism has focused primarily on women who were victims of military sexual assault. But after that work was published, she said sheContinue Reading
Alan Duff: US ‘weird and contradictory’ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11703553 She’s turned the tables on near every woman who claimed a fling or affair with her – likable – husband. Perhaps that’s no different to a woman making a complaint to police saying she was raped in – let’s just name a fewContinue Reading
Execution rates in US drop to 24-year low https://t.co/n1zbboYEIA pic.twitter.com/Fe9Laxnjvo — Al Jazeera America (@ajam) November 16, 2015 Capital punishment in the United States has moved into the slow lane, with the number of executions and new death sentences likely to hit lows not seen for more than 20 years.Continue Reading
