1. How a Grassroots Activist Became Seattle’s Most Talked About Mayoral Candidate
She’s a teacher, does pro bono legal work, is involved in a program that offers an arts alternative to incarceration, is active in Black Lives Matter — and, if elected, would be Seattle’s first black woman to hold the office of mayor.
2. The Best Way the U.S. Could Help Syrians: Open the Borders
The best humanitarian interventions don’t involve the military.
3. Meet the Theologians and Activists Behind the Top Lenten Hashtags
The curators of four social media campaigns — #LentenLament, #LentLite, #EmbodiedSolidarity, and #DetoxifyChristianity — are exploring what the Lenten practices of repentance, resistance, and solidarity look like in public. Hear straight from them—
When Shawn Katsube was a teenager in Uganda, prominent American Christians like Rick Warren and Scott Lively began visiting the country, spreading a decidedly anti-homosexual evangelicalism — years later, the Ugandan parliament would outlaw homosexuality. Atavist offers this in-depth story of one refugee’s journey escaping imprisonment and finding safe harbor at a Long Beach, Calif., Episcopal congregation.
5. I Tried to Represent an Undocumented Man Rounded Up by ICE. I Couldn’t Even Find Him.
An infuriating account of what it’s really like behind the scenes of our immigration system — one “designed to be opaque, confusing, and inequitable.”
“Of course Clinton likely knew that paying lip service to her rivalry with the president was a way to get people’s attention; media coverage of the event so far is indicative of this. Violence is, after all, much more attractive.”
7. Why Cops Shoot: The Entire Tampa Bay Times Project on Florida Police
An exhaustive report on a 2014 investigation that tracked police shootings over the course of six years in Florida. Here’s what they learned.
8. White Women Must Make the Equal-Pay Fight More Inclusive
Brittany Packnett shares why she started the hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork — and why she knew it would go viral.
9. Border Arrests Are Decreasing. But Has the U.S. ‘Solved’ the Immigration Crisis?
Some are calling the stats a positive result of the ‘Trump Effect.’ But let’s examine what it actually means.
10. Heroes in the Heartland Are Quietly Protecting Our Land and Water
“Farmers and ranchers manage some two-thirds of the land in the United States, and are responsible for some extraordinary environmental improvements. Not to say every conservative farmer is a stewardship superstar, but you’d be surprised by how many are.”
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