The thug that attacked Johnnie Jermaine Rush now faces charges.

A group of vigilantes in Ulster, that killed or wounded alleged drug dealers, shot a man for participating in a protest against them. The group later developed into terrorists.

Every year, there is a celebration of the 1960s voting rights movement that passed the Voting Rights Act, subsequently weakened by right-wingers on the Supreme Court. Nowadays there is a campaign for voting rights for former prisoners, and a campaign to inform many current prisoners that they are entitled to vote from prison.

The challenge of rehabilitating imprisoned criminals is to give them a stake in their community. Voting will surely help.

One of the advantages for a rural area in having a prison is that the prisoners are counted as part of its population. Right-wingers might be less eager for private prisons if the prisoners could outvote them.

US citizens: call on Congress not to fund the bully's deportation machine.

US citizens: oppose Republican plans to arm teachers.

In general, more guns make people less safe.