Category: Culture
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Black Women Disproportionately Suffer Complications of Pregnancy and Childbirth. Let’s Talk About It.
African American women are four times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy. Where is their voice in the health care debates? Adriana Gallardo talks to survivors.
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From the Publisher: If Six Turned Out to be Nine
Our publisher muses over six years of running Seattle’s finest commons-based journal.
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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.
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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.
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Dogs and Our Ambivalence
Sanjay Kumar pens an ode to the canine within the human and the human within the canine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
