Kavanaugh and #MeToo Raise New Questions About Youth Drinking Culture
Reading Time: 14 minutes Fraternities, one of the earliest manifestations of male privilege, remain training grounds for drinking and sexual abuse in a changing era.
Migration Expert Slams ‘Barbarity’ of Trump Policies
Reading Time: 20 minutes Global migration is a huge problem. In order for nations to deal with it effectively and humanely, its root causes and historical lineage must be understood.
Is America Now a Fascist Country?
Reading Time: 14 minutes A look at how a country filled with sexism, racism, nostalgia, and class division is ripe for fascist politics to take over via seemingly democratic means.
The 2008 Crash Was Not a Singular Event
Reading Time: 16 minutes On the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, a reinterpretation of what happened — and a warning of the dangers that might lie just ahead.
The Global Elite’s Efforts to Change the World
Reading Time: 19 minutes Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctum of a new gilded age.
Voter Suppression 101
Reading Time: 17 minutes A look at how voting laws are being subverted to suppress minority participation, and at the resultant degradation of democracy.
Quagmire in Afghanistan: 17 Years and Counting
Reading Time: 15 minutes Is there a way forward in Afghanistan? A conversation with Laurel E. Miller, a senior foreign policy expert at RAND.
How Corporations Force States to Stifle Local Rule
Reading Time: 15 minutes The American Beverage Association basically extorted California’s government into preempting the authority of cities and counties to impose soda taxes over the next 12 years. Unfortunately other large corporate interests are also using similar tactics to get what they want.
Temp Work: The Waste Product of the Service Economy?
Reading Time: 17 minutes Cornell professor Louis Hyman explains the history of the unmaking of American work, how temporary work took over the economy, and why the gig economy may yet have a silver lining.
Are Americans Afraid of Optimism?
Reading Time: 18 minutes The US and the world are doing better by almost every metric. So why is there so much pessimism?