| Sep 5, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyThe new film Crazy Rich Asians is a triumph of representation in Hollywood. It’s the first film in a quarter century to have an all-Asian cast. Crazy Rich Asians is wonderful, on so many levels. It’s a charming and fun movie with a great cast. For the...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyGrowing up, I hated being on “food stamps.” I hated being walked into a welfare office and inspected, queried to make sure we were really our mother’s children. I hated standing in line at the grocery store, knowing we weren’t going to be paying with...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAs wildfires rage across California, some of the people risking their lives to fight them are paid only a few dollars a day. They’re part of a 2.3 million-strong underclass of American employees making sweatshop wages: incarcerated workers. Slave wages are just...
| | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThis summer featured at least a dozen stories of black Americans across the country having the police called on them for little or no reason at all. Famously, two black men in Philadelphia were arrested while simply waiting for a friend at a Starbucks. Then the police...
| Aug 29, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyAmerica’s political history has been written in the fierce narrative of war. Not our country’s many military clashes with foreign nations, but our own unending war for democracy in the United States. Generation after generation of moneyed elites have persisted in...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyAs a sociology professor in community college, I have my students play Monopoly. Only, I give them a special, rigged version. There are five players. The wealthiest begins with $5,500, all of the railroads, and the two most valuable properties (Boardwalk and Park...
