Tag / domestic violence
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Aching on the Periphery of Pain
You and I are alive and thus we have not died. But have you ever been in pain? ♦ I was chatting with a friend by the bleachers when the shooting began at the high school athletic field where I recently found myself during a dream. The concrete area was spacious, but it was fenced…
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The NFL’s Long Game: Do We Thank Injustice for the Change It Creates?
BY RACHEL BUTLER “If this is a seminal moment for domestic violence and the way we handle it as a society, then that’s not a burden for us to be that poster boy— it’s not. Now, I’m embarrassed about it, but five years from now if things have changed significantly for the better, I’ll be…
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On the Failures Regarding Ray Rice
BY CHARLIE THAU Let’s start with the obvious—Ray Rice failed. The act of brutality against his then-fiancée Janay Palmer in an Atlantic City casino elevator was unconscionable and barbaric. Rice failed as a partner, a man, and as a father on the deepest possible level. All of this is obvious to anybody with even a…
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The Nonconformists: Uruguay Legalizes Abortion
Social policy never changes quietly. In the United States, it has been almost thirty years since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion for a woman in the first trimester of her pregnancy, and yet the country continues to vigorously argue over the issue today. Throughout the rest of the world, social policy issues are no simpler…
