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published on Jun. 3, 2015 1am

The only thing capital punishment accomplishes is it forces ordinary people to be complicit in the same kind of act capital punishment advocates want to punish: the killing of another human being.

published on May. 23, 2015 9pm

Last week the Buffalo News made a big deal of newly released Attica documents—but there was no news in them. So why pretend there was?

published on May. 12, 2015 4pm

What’s $1.8 million between friends? We were astonished when, in March, a friend told The Public that the Buffalo Sewer Authority pays the City of Buffalo $1.8 million each year for—well, we’re not sure for what.

published on May. 9, 2015 11am

At the historic Miller mansion on Nottingham, the current owners are building a wall. An ugly, expensive wall.

published on Apr. 28, 2015 11pm

You want a test that tells you what’s wrong? Devise one that goes to life in our community.

published on Mar. 31, 2015 11pm

Looking back at his time on the front line, Bruce Jackson explains why the War on Drugs is, and always has been, shooting blanks.

published on Mar. 10, 2015 11pm

BRUCE JACKSON is SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo and

published on Mar. 3, 2015 4pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech for the US Congress is all politics—the bad kind of politics.

published on Feb. 24, 2015 11pm

The anti-vaccination hysteria ranks with the CIA explosives in the WTC, the hidden aliens in the American Southwest, and the JFK assassination: things we’d like a nicer or prettier answer for but just can’t find.

published on Feb. 10, 2015 10pm

Memory is not a hard drive or a book. It is active, ever in flux, ever reconfiguring bits of information that seemed irrelevant at the time.

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