| Jul 7, 2020 | RoundupWe’ve been publishing at a rapid clip for what feels like ages. From the Trump administration taking us to the brink of war earlier this year to the COVID-19 crisis and racial justice uprisings of the last few months, we’ve lurched along from one crisis to...
| Jul 1, 2020 | RoundupCOVID-19 cases are surging again nationally, often surpassing infection rates from the last peak in April. Yet with many states refusing to roll back reopening measures, that’s going to mean a lot more people getting sick just going to work. This week in...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe global economy is collapsing. When the pandemic began, experts at the International Monetary Fund predicted that we would see the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. This week, they announced that it will be even worse than they thought. This...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor decades, we’ve been told that policing is a public good: available to all, for the benefit of all. But in practice, that’s never been true. One of the basic measures of a “public good” is that it’s accessible to all people in a society, regardless of ability to...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen those of us who are white are asked to engage with anti-racism, we are being asked to do something emotionally difficult: understand how we have benefited from a system that disadvantages and hurts others, so we can help dismantle it. If you oppose and abhor...
