PRISONS FOR PROFIT-In 2016 two immigrant detainees died after receiving care at facilities run by Emerald Correctional Management, a small Louisiana-based for-profit prison firm that at the time managed detention centers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

JOURNALISM MATTERS-A fatal single-engine plane crash in a corn field was the first story I ever covered for a local newspaper, the Kalamazoo Gazette. 

CONSIDER THIS--What if Anthony Bourdain killed himself because he loved life too much? 

LABOR WATCH-In the fall of 2015, the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization with a libertarian bent, held its annual lawyers convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.

GUEST COMMENTARY--This week, ina 5-4 ruling of the conservative majority, the Supreme Courtdealt a stinging, bigoted blow to justice and equality, ruling for President Donald Trump’s travel ban ― a ban that lower courts ruled unconstitutional by virtue of Trump’s repeated hateful and discriminatory statements against Muslims. 

MY TURN-I suppose the real question to ask is whether America was ever not broken?