Making the gun violence epidemic visible through art and activism
Leslie Lee calls herself an “artivist.” It’s a word combining art and activism, rooted in community and Latinx art from the late...
Should we worry about income gaps within or between countries?
At the beginning of classes every autumn, I tease my students with the following question: Is it better to be poor in...
Rigged: How globalization and the rules of the modern economy were structured to make...
The richest 1% have done extraordinarily well over the last four decades. But income has stagnated for the majority. This was not...
You don’t need a weatherman…
Taken from one of Bob Dylan's songs, Subterranean Homesick Blues, this lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"...
Nearly 1,000 Amazon workers will walk out and join Global Climate Strike
"As a leader, we need to reach zero first and not be a company who slides in at the last possible deadline,”
New report: ABC, CBS, NBC covered climate crisis connection to Hurricane Dorian only once...
"Climate change is fueling storms like Hurricane Dorian. But you wouldn't know that from watching broadcast TV news."
Big Pharma is the most widely hated industry in the US
With drug prices continuing to sore and the ongoing opioid epidemic and lawsuits associated with it, the industry's rating likely will not recover any time soon.
NYT remembers David Koch more as ‘philanthropist’ than polluter
An obituary should memorialize a person, but some people’s legacies are darker than dinosaur exhibits.
Tax the rich before the rest
Candidates should pledge that the middle class won't pay $1 more in new taxes until billionaires put up at least $1 trillion.
Twisting, distorting the meaning of the Second Amendment
Will the American people allow these un-American entities to twist and bend the meaning of the Second Amendment so that it outweighs the critical need to significantly reduce the incidence of mass shootings?