Universal Basic Income: Return to Eden?
Silvia Swinden explores the anthropology of work and urbanization, and suggests that a universal basic income might address a long-standing disconnect.
Merry Christmas
Happy Christmas to all of you, from all of us at The Seattle Star.
Fake History, Fake News, JFK, and Setting the Record Straight with Vince Salandria and Paul Kurtz
Gary Corseri brings you some thoughts after listening to Warren Commission skeptic and scholar Vince Salandria.
Dogs and Our Ambivalence
Sanjay Kumar pens an ode to the canine within the human and the human within the canine.
Suspect Evidence Informed a Momentous Supreme Court Decision on Criminal Sentencing
The U.S. Sentencing Commission helped send more people to prison for longer terms. It’s a shame it was created to address a nonexistent crisis. ProPublica’s Ryan Gabrielson digs into the thirty-year history of “fair sentencing” in the US court system.
How Students Get Banished to Alternative Schools
In this era of so-called “ school choice,” a pattern has emerged: Students don’t choose their alternative schools. They’re sentenced to them. Heather Vogell reports.
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends.
Free Thing of the Week: Policing the Black Man
We bring you an interview with Angela J. Davis and Sherrilyn Ifill, contributors to the new book, Policing the Black Man.
How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
Donald Trump. North Korea. Hurricanes. Neoliberalism. Is there any hope of a better world? Yes. But we have to come together to tell a new, kinder story explaining who we are, and how we should live. George Monbiot writes.
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