Little Free Library’s not-so-little commitment to getting the word out
These book-sharing boxes promote literacy and strengthen communities.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, July 2, 2018
Protestors march against Trump's immigration policies, San Francisco becomes first major city to have $15 minimum wage, and more.
Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001
Homelessness is becoming more dispersed across major cities in Australia.
In an unequal America, empathy, not just housing, has become too pricey
Empathy for the plight of the homeless, meanwhile, is withering away, particularly among society’s most fortunate, as the social distance between that top and the rest of society widens.
6 reasons for hope in Trump times
First, Donald Trump has been a giant wake-up call that we can’t take democracy for granted.
I walked right up to militarized police at the border
The risk we took at the border is overshadowed by the risks taken by the courageous participants of the migrant caravan.
The evil that guns do
The firearms lobby suggests that because morality can’t be legislated, the evil of gun violence can only be controlled by... more guns.
My year and welcome to it
Here are four (million) of my own takeaways from 2021, a classic hell-on-Earth year that, if worse weren’t potentially on the horizon, could perhaps be quickly forgotten.
Why riot? Toward a typology of social unrest
It is not fair to expect oppressed people to answer violence with nonviolence, but it’s what actually works far more often.
Why the government makes filing your taxes intentionally difficult
"Congress should be making it easier for Americans to file their taxes each year, not bowing to the interests of the tax prep industry."