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Falguni A. Sheth

Falguni A. Sheth is a professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She writes about politics, race, and feminism at translationexercises.wordpress.com. Follow her on Twitter at @FalguniSheth.

The author with her husband in August 2014. (Falguni Sheth)

My heartbreaking journey to Gitmo: A widow, a military prison & the enigma of human compassion

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(Reuters/Antonio Bronic)

When empathy isn’t nearly enough: Why the Syrian refugee crisis demands more than mercurial emotion

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French soldiers patrol near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, January 9, 2015. (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes)

Hebdo shooting’s missing context: How long-held vilification of Muslims got lost in the discussion

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John Yoo, Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in "24: Live Another Day," John Brennan (AP/Susan Walsh/Fox/Reuters/Larry Downing/Photo collage by Salon)

America’s moral foundation collapses: Why we can’t simply “look forward” on torture

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St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch. (MSNBC)

White supremacy lives on: Ferguson decision confirms absence of legal and moral justice

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-695464p1.html'>Denys Prykhodov</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-809503p1.html'>Twin Design</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>//<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/profile/magnez2'>magnez2</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

You don’t “have nothing to hide”: How privacy breaches are quietly controlling you

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Police wearing riot gear walk toward a man with his hands raised Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

Shoot first, ask later: Why the concept of “reasonable fear” is anything but reasonable

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(Reuters/Jim Young/Yuri Gripas/AP/Charles Dharapak/photo montage by Salon)

Patriots don’t torture: Why excusing it is an American catastrophe

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Kenan Morrison stands with his arms raised in the middle of a street, near other protesters, Aug. 12, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

White supremacy’s latest round: Retracing the real history of Ferguson

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(Reuters/Nir Elias/Baz Ratner/Salon)

The West’s selective amnesia: Gaza, the war on terror and the paradox of human rights

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John Kerry (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Our endless “War on Terror”: The truth behind an incoherent foreign policy

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Bowe Berghdal (Reuters)

The real Bergdahl scandal: What about the other Gitmo detainees?

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Mos Def (Wikimedia/Tuomas Vitikainen)

Mos Def’s false alarm: Why a harrowing Internet rumor seemed so credible

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Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

Greenwald and Poitras’ return: What’s the real reason they weren’t arrested?

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(AP/Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt/Don Ryan)

Children murdered, homes foreclosed: How the government makes “mistakes” with impunity

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Sam Polk

A money addict’s neoliberal fantasy: Sam Polk and his civilizing mission

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(Twitter)

Rumsfeld’s long-lasting, deplorable legacy continues — but an immediate remedy is obvious

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Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page (Reuters/Robert Galbraith/AP/Seth Wenig)

Corporations’ greedy motive to oppose surveillance: Profits!

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(Reuters/Carlo Allegri/AP/Richard Drew)

New York Times’ blind spot on Clinton and race

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(AP/Mc2 Kilho Park)

Don’t buy the spin on Guantanamo: “Closing” it doesn’t mean what you think

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Amy Carey, center, sister of Miriam Carey, speaks to the media outside the home of her sister Valarie, second from left, in Brooklyn, Oct. 4, 2013. (AP/John Minchillo)

The smearing of Miriam Carey: How the media bungled the Capitol Hill shooting

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Mahdi Hashi (mahdihashi.net/)

This is counterterrorism?: The shocking story of Mahdi Hashi

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-830908p1.html'>Oksana Kuzmina</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Why our best students are totally oblivious

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Glenn Greenwald (AP/Kin Cheung)

Q&A with Glenn Greenwald: Americans’ reaction “surprising and gratifying”

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