Friday, March 29, 2024

Minority lawyers hanging from their own bootstraps

How law schools fail those who seek justice.

Infographic: Why normal people can’t afford a house

The U.S. is better at subsidizing wealthy people than low-income people.

The second sight of W.E.B. Du Bois

Du Bois would hardly fare better today. His radical critique of empire and capitalism would make him even more of a pariah in the academy and on the airwaves.

Bernie Sanders calls out Walt Disney Co. for poverty-level wages

"The time is now to have an economy that works for everyone, not just a handful of billionaires."

The taking of Millennial wealth by rich white Boomers

A booming economy? Yes, for the richest 10 percent, who took 85 percent of the new wealth.

Duck-and-cover America

Advice to college graduates in the age of Trump: We need you, class of 2018, not under some desk but out there ready to change our world for the better.

What’s a ‘black identity extremist’? Groups demand Trump Dhs release ‘race paper’

We must be especially intolerant of racism when it appears as official government policy, enshrined in secret documents in black and white.

US CEOs are world’s best – for themselves

U.S. CEOs certainly do deliver the best results for themselves. They certainly do not, on the other hand, deliver the best results for average people in their nations.

Teaching ‘Les Misérables’ in prison

The novel gave them a lens to view their lives and a ruling system every bit as cruel as Hugo’s 19th-century France.

The retired General who stopped a Wall Street coup

General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on a millionaire-led effort to oust FDR and the New Deal.