| Sep 5, 2018 | RoundupThis week, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh goes before the Senate for grilling, and it’s already been quite a scene. In this week’s newsletter, we round up some of our work on the controversial nominee — including for what his appointment might mean...
| Aug 29, 2018 | RoundupThis week, Jill Richardson encourages us to imagine our economy as a game of Monopoly — something she often has her own community college students do. It turns out that when you rig Monopoly the way our real economy is rigged, the game ends almost immediately. Is that...
| Aug 22, 2018 | RoundupThere’s nothing like polishing off a week’s worth of op-eds and then getting the news, at around 4:00 p.m. the day before they go out, that the president’s campaign manager and personal attorney were each convicted of significant white-collar crimes....
| Aug 15, 2018 | RoundupPresident Trump just signed a massive, $717 billion defense bill named for Senator John McCain. But for most of the media, the controversy here wasn’t the price tag or its effects — it was that Trump refused to personally thank McCain when he signed it. This...
| Aug 1, 2018 | RoundupWe often hear that fossil fuel extraction creates jobs. But did you know that energy efficiency actually creates more? In other words, there are more jobs to be had in making sure we use less fossil fuels than in actually digging those fuels up. And what’s more,...
