By Donathan Salkaln:                                         On the very afternoon that two sons of Russian immigrants detonated bombs of mass hate in Boston, I had the uncomfortable predicament of finding a wallet on the Long Island Railroad. I was heading back to NYC after helping my mother with endless Sandy repairs. I remember it was the same day, because across the aisle, the young Latino who...

By Francine Haselkorn:                                       With so much important news this year, it’s easy to have missed the report* of Justice Scalia, at a college, reiterating his stance that ‘voting is an ‘entitlement.’ Back in February, at a hearing of the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia presented an argument against Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The section requires states or localities, t...