| Apr 1, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyHere’s something you might not know about Ferguson, Missouri: In this city of 21,000 people, 16,000 have outstanding arrest warrants. In fact, in 2013 alone, authorities issued 9,000 warrants for over 32,000 offenses. That’s one-and-a-half offenses for every resident...
| Jan 28, 2015 | Cartoon|Food / Farming
| Sep 24, 2014 | Economy / BusinessWhen the Census released the latest data on inequality, most mainstream media outlets shrugged it off. That’s quite a contrast from earlier this year when inequality was all the rage. Reporters were scrambling to write about it. In January, President Barack...
| Jul 30, 2014 | Economy / BusinessMust formerly rich people shed all their status symbols? It’s a widely held presumption, Darlena Cunha explained. “I had so internalized the message of what poor people should or should not have that I felt ashamed to be there, with that car,” she...
| Feb 12, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyNow here’s a heads-they-win, tails-we-lose situation: Three of the contracts Arizona signed with private companies to house its prisoners require 100 percent occupancy. That’s right: If the state fails to send along enough jailbirds to fill all the beds,...
