Check out these recent articles from around the web: A Mockery of Justice for the Poor by John Pfaff: “Yet despite this constitutional guarantee, state and county spending on lawyers for the poor amounts to only $2.3 billion — barely 1 percent of the more than $200 billion governments spend annually on criminal justice. Worse,… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Granted a new life by the pope, refugees speak of horrors that drove them from Syria by Tom Kington: “In March of last year, Al Shakarji decided to risk fleeing down mined roads and past snipers to reach Turkey, taking his wife and three children with… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pope shows mercy for ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine by Andriy Chirovsky: “Putin has also launched the most intense propaganda effort since Goebbels in World War II, utilizing both mainstream media assets and newly available social media. The Russian government is also funding extreme right-wing groups throughout… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: The new Gilded Age: Close to half of all super-PAC money comes from 50 donors by Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy: “A small core of super-rich individuals is responsible for the record sums cascading into the coffers of super PACs for the 2016 elections, a dynamic… Read More Around the Web

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Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Shame Culture by David Brooks: “Everybody is perpetually insecure in a moral system based on inclusion and exclusion. There are no permanent standards, just the shifting judgment of the crowd. It is a culture of oversensitivity, overreaction and frequent moral panics, during which everybody feels… Read More Around the Web