| May 20, 2020 | Environment / HealthStrangely enough, navigating the world with mental illness has oddly prepared me for quarantine. I’ve got social anxiety. I crave human connection, and I also fear it, so I spent years avoiding people while desperately lonely. You know what it looked like? A lot like...
| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’ve ever had a parent or loved one incarcerated, you know how scary it can be. There’s so much that can go wrong in prison, and neither you nor your loved one have much control over it. Thanks to mass incarceration, millions live with this fear every day — 64...
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| May 13, 2020 | RoundupAs Congress negotiates a new coronavirus relief package, many states are already reopening their economies… with potentially deadly results. This week in OtherWords, Negin Owliaei reflects on the grim reality that workers are going to die from this rush to...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThere’s a general sentiment today that multimillionaire corporate chieftains are pigs. But I think that’s unfair. To pigs. Pigs are remarkably intelligent animals with a sense of social responsibility to the common good of the group. Compare that to the pompous and...
