The House of Representatives is not representative
Tuesday’s results were perfectly coherent, a fight over two concepts central to our nation’s origins, its progress, and its future: the promises of and restrictions on political representation and political enfranchisement.
Meanwhile, food insecurity among new immigrant families has nearly doubled in the last decade.
We are already paying a high price for inequality, but it is just a down payment on what we will have to pay if we do not do something—and quickly. It is not just our economy that is at stake; we are risking our democracy.
Female prison inmates are being disciplined at much higher rates than men for lower-level offenses in many states.
Italian professor’s presentation deemed ‘unacceptable’ by Geneva research centre
Most years, this last week in July is the only time that the media turns its attention to people with disabilities. But this year has been different.
In the name of the fight against terrorism, the United States is currently waging “credit-card wars” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere.
Institutional expressions of racism in the US food system and ways universities can contribute to challenging racism.
Poverty is deepening, the standard of living is declining in the US, wages remain stagnant and inequality is worsening. Meanwhile the national unemployment rate has hit historically low levels. What explains this anomalous state of the US economy?
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