[Opinion] The 'American Way of Life' Is Shaping Up to Be a Battleground
Monday, May 18, 2020
There are limits to what ordinary people are willing to endure to secure the bottom line of their employers.
Opinion & Analysis
[Opinion] Cancel the Rent
Thursday, May 14, 2020
In the richest country in the world, it has never been more urgent to provide decent and comfortable housing for all.[Opinion] Protecting the Right to Vote During a Pandemic
Wednesday, Apr 29, 2020
The stakes of this year's elections demonstrate the urgency of voting reforms to ensure that no one has to choose between their health and the health of their democracy.[Opinion] The Black Plague
Wednesday, Apr 22, 2020
Thousands of white Americans have also died from the virus, but the pace at which African-Americans are dying has transformed this public-health crisis into an object lesson in racial and class inequality. According to a Reuters report, African-Americans are more likely to die of COVID-19 than any other group in the U.S. It is still early in the course of the pandemic, and the demographic data is incomplete, but the partial view is enough to prompt a sober reflection on this bitter harvest of American racism.[Opinion] Are We at the Start of a New Protest Movement?
Friday, Apr 17, 2020
The immediate immiseration of millions of people highlights our mutual bond.Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability & Refuting Black Pathology
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2020
The pandemic will pass. Our grief will endure.
Friday, Apr 10, 2020
Americans have been told to brace themselves for difficult days ahead. The numbers are uncertain, but mass death is at our doorstep. If we do everything right and shelter in place, we may still see between 100,000 and 240,000 dead. These are staggering numbers, but more importantly they are real people. Mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts, daughters and sons, friends — people whose deaths will disrupt the lives of families and rend the fabric of communities across this nation.
[Opinion] The Hypocrisy of the NCAA's Amateurism Model
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2020
This was but the most recent example of the injustice of the NCAA’s insistence on amateurism, which claims the purity of having no money in the game while at the same time constructing a multibillion-dollar industry around college athletics. This massive business is built on the backs of athletes, the majority of whom are black, and the profits go to mostly white power brokers.[Opinion] We Really Still Need Howard Zinn
Monday, Jan 13, 2020
Howard Zinn wrote one of the most popular books on American history ever. A People’s History of the United States has sold an astonishing two million copies since its first publication in 1980. The success of the book can also be measured by the way that it spawned a new genre of “people-centered” renditions of history. Zinn’s approach to history essentially inverted the traditional approach that placed the rich and powerful, along with the institutions they governed, as the central motors in the development of society. It was history told from above. Alternatively, Zinn championed an approach to history from the bottom up or from the perspective of “the people.”[Opinion] The Distortion of Free Speech
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2019
We should be judicious in who we invite to campus and cultivate a culture of debate not for its own sake but in pursuit of the truth that gives respect to all people.
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