Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
Efforts by governments and cities to defund the public library are thankully falleing short due to essential role libraries play.
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Textbooks Are Falling Behind on Climate Change
A new study found that most biology textbooks devote fewer sentences to climate change than they did before 2010.
Read more...How Wall Street Takeover of Rental Market Is Fueling the Homelessness Crisis
New lawsuits allege mega landlords are colluding to keep rents high and units vacant while also embracing surveillance tech to evict tenants.
Read more...Nepo Babies and the Myth of the Meritocracy
Meritocracy has become an empty idea in America. That’s a problem.
Read more...Zelensky’s Bloody War Against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
A bloody attack on a Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest, close to the Orthodox Christmas, in a church….and sanctioned by the government.
Read more...The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Where Do We Stand and Where Should We Go Regarding Social and Biomedical Responses to Pandemic?
As Covid vaccines underperform and for some groups, present risks, an article in a prominent metical ethics journal calls for mandates to end.
Read more...List Processing: Why We Never Have to Read End-of-Year Lists Again (But Why not Make Some?)
A close reading of “End of Year” lists.
Read more...Thomas Frank on How the Feckless Democrats Trashed the American Middle Class
How Democrats abandoned populist economic ideas and whether there is a future for progressivism.
Read more...Cal Grad Student Worker Strike Ends With Deal Panned by Many Rank-and-File Union Members
One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement “does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished.”
Read more...Over the Holidays, Try Talking to Your Relatives Like an Anthropologist
How to talk to your relatives to learn more about their history and the society they once inhabited.
Read more...Salvador Luria, 1912-1991: A Scientist for Our Time
On accomplished scientist, institution-builder, teacher and activitst Salvadore Luria.
Read more...Meet the Grinch Stealing Social Security, the Future of Gen Y And Z
ow Social Security is a victim of wage stagflation.
Read more...Unequal Education and the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’
A look at the role of educational advantage in perpetuating inequality.
Read more...Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science
How sustained funding legitimated race sciene.
Read more...The Political Disruptions of Fiscal Austerity
Confirmation that austerity is bad for political stabiity because ordinary citizens don’t take well to their governments treating them badly.
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