Floaters
Martín Espada’s newest collection, Floaters, takes its title from the term used by some Border Patrol police to describe migrants drowned in the Rio Grande.
The Re-emergence of Sectoral Bargaining in the US, Britain, Australia and Canada
On Labor

A growing number of unions, academics and politicians in the US and countries most similar to it think increasing sectoral bargaining is a critical step to improve conditions for workers.
Notes From the Underground
Inside Higher Ed

For the first time, Richard Wright's 1942 novel about a wrongly accused Black man is seeing the light of day. Wright was testing the outer limits of what the white novel-reading public would have found imaginable.
COVID Vaccines and Kids: Five Questions as Trials Begin
Nature

Vaccine trials will involve only a few thousand children, so there may be too few symptomatic infections to measure efficacy. It makes more sense to look at immune markers after vaccination.
It’s Time to Build a Comprehensive Child Care and Early Learning System
Century Foundation

As the pandemic has underscored, the practice of calling on families to pay unaffordable sums for child care while paying early educators poverty-level wages was never really sustainable, and it’s time for that to change.
The Great Gap in Vaccinations
The global vaccination drive is happening at two speeds: Richer countries have plenty of funding and plentiful vaccine-doses. Poorer countries have neither.
How an Abstinence Pledge Shamed a Generation
A Christian “purity” movement in the 90s promoted a biblical view of abstinence before marriage. But two decades later, followers are grappling with unforeseen aftershocks.
Martín Espada | "The Year I Was Diagnosed with a Sacrilegious Heart"
At 12, in the midst of the Vietnam War, poet-to-be Martin Espada faced consequences for refusing to pledge allegiance.
Why Is America's Justice System So Unfair?
Ari Melber traces the origins of injustice in America's justice system by explaining everything from the racist Jim Crow framework to the bipartisan 1994 crime bill.
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