| Mar 31, 2021 | Rights / DemocracyThe Idaho legislature just cracked down on colleges teaching “social justice ideology.” They cut $409,000 from Boise State University’s budget and forced a number of “social justice”-related classes to move online and “asynchronous,” without any more live discussion....
| Sep 30, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedToday I looked at a graph of income inequality over time in America. This was not new information to me, and yet it was still shocking. From the 1950s until the early 1970s, Americans grew richer together. Some Americans were poor and others were rich, but their...
| Sep 16, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedToday, I attended online classes all day and then curled up with the new Bob Woodward book, Rage. Rage is what I feel about the mishandling of COVID that led to all of my classes being online. Relatively speaking, I’ve got it good. I am financially secure, and I’m not...
| Aug 19, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIn a few weeks, I begin my semester as a teaching assistant in an undergraduate sociology class. I am not sure what to expect. Last March, when our school sent the students home, everything happened suddenly. We weren’t sure what time zones our students would be in....
| Jul 14, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAfter graduating from college last year, Hayat Rahmeto moved back in with her parents and planned to work two jobs to save money for law school. Then the pandemic hit. She lost one job, with Delta Airlines, and the prospects for finding another were bleak....
