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Week in Compassionate Capitalism
STEM or: HOW GIRL SCOUTS LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB content warning: military violence At last month’s Macy’s …
Chinga las Armas
SOA, Plan Merida, and how the US funds gun violence in Mexico
December 10 marks the 12th year anniversary of the War on Drugs in Mexico. As of November 2018, 250,000 people are …
Week in Double Deals
Flushing the Swamp Never in the history of electoral politics has the accusation “My opponent is full of shit” been used …
Tough Love
I came around to Angela Merkel. Now she´s on her way out.
Germany’s historically early exit from the World Cup this year wasn’t the summer’s only national tragedy. Almost immediately following the Nationalelf’s …
The Children Who Leave and the Burden They Carry
Professor, activist, and journalist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj on her commitment to justice and fighting for Indigenous communities in Guatemala
content warning: state violence, racism “They leave because they want to break the curse that steals their dreams the moment they …
Week in Puppets
DANCE LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHING “This is interpretive dance—also known as Mooch Moves—for my time in the White House.” Last Monday, the …
Beyond the Candidates
An independent midterms rundown
Here we thread together national stories, revealed not through House or Senate races, but through ballot measures and referendums, speaking to …
Week in Subcultures
POW! WHAM! CHOMP? Let this serve as a lesson to all New England exotic pet owners and comic book lovers: you …
Impossible Justice
Interview with Liz Sly, Washington Post ... reporter on the Middle East
content warning: war, murder, sexual violence Liz Sly is the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, a position she has …
Week in Stunts
ACCIDENTAL ALTERCATIONS In a dramatic reveal last Wednesday, Rhode Island’s very own Joe Trillo acknowledged that yes, okay, he may have …
The Face of Fascism
Brazil’s presidential election heads for disaster
content warning: political violence, racism, classism, misogyny, sexual violence, homophobia, transphobia, death, torture Public statements made by Jair Messias Bolsonaro, the …
Yankees Go Home
US approaches to the Venezuelan crisis
“America stands with every person living under a brutal regime,” claimed President Trump in his proclamation declaring National Hispanic Heritage Month …
Week In Denmark
BRICK BY BRICK Conservationists keen on toy block reconstructions of Death Stars and Taj Mahals can finally rejoice: Lego is ditching …
Week In Running
Uptown Rats, Not So Whitebread World Billy Joel pointed out that the differences between the girls of the Upper East Side …
Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Life and Death in Nebraska
cw: graphic depictions of death, racial violence On the night of September 1, 1994, local news anchors Loretta Caroll and John …
Keeping Families Together (In Detention)
A "new" Flores Settlement and the move from family separation to family imprisonment
The names and biographical information stated below have been altered to protect the identities of the children and their mothers who …
Week in Shiny Objects
Somewhere Under the Rainbow Just over 13 years ago, a pair of iconic ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz was …
Week in Failed Businesses
BLUE AT ONE TIME, GREEN AT ANOTHER This past week, more than 11,000 tourists visited Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, home …
“Private” Violence, Public Concern
Jeff Sessions’ Disregard for Decades of Women’s and Migrants’ Rights Activism
“Generally, claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang violence perpetrated by non-governmental actors will not qualify for asylum.” In …
Private Eyes
Cambridge Analytica and the new frontier of internet privacy
This past month, Cambridge Analytica has made its way into our consciousness and, for those of us unfortunate enough to be …
Week in Unrequited Love
Say No to Marriage According to relationship guru magazine, Cosmopolitan, one in four women will turn down a marriage proposal in …
Behind the Braids
Students, farmworkers, and the Fair Food Program
During spring of 2015, my first year at Brown, I participated in a campus-wide movement called #MoneyTalksAtBrown. This student-organized march and …
Week in Hot Takes
With Flying Colors When Nick Burchill arrived at Victoria’s Fairmont Empress hotel in April, 2001, he was carrying a suitcase full …
Strike While the Iron is Hot
The Oklahoma Education Association and the fight for a livable wage
On Monday, April 2, an estimated 30,000 Oklahoma public school teachers converged on the Oklahoma Capitol, coinciding with a walkout that …
Week in Facebook
Analog Apology Much to the surprise of everyone, Mark Zuckerberg apologized to humanity last week for the harm he has caused …
Who is Deemed Worthy
How America has delegitimized Black youth activism
On February 20, nearly a week after the Parkland High School shooting, 100 students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …
Week in Messy Politics
Revolutionary Criminals People who work for the government in Rhode Island aren’t the best at playing by the rules. In the …
Walking Out
The West Virginia teachers strike and the future of American labor
On February 22, 35,000 teachers in all 55 West Virginia counties walked out on their jobs, shutting down public schools statewide …
Week in Growing Industries
Reasons to Lyft After a long Saturday night and a few too many tequila shots, sometimes the only thing the uninhibited …
Head-to-Toe in All American
USCIS, the Olympics, and the paradigm of the exemplary immigrant
A clear voice amid the static: “I will be rewarded. I worked my hardest and I will be rewarded.” The pronouncement …
Week in Strange Competition
Fighting for Fitness When it comes to national security threats, you’ve heard of North Korea, you’ve heard of Russia’s troll farms, …
The Hand that Feeds You
Columbia graduate workers give a lesson in labor
content warning: sexual harassment On February 1, a group of graduate workers and faculty at Columbia University gathered in front of …
Week in Unwanted Commodities
Repent, Reuse, Recycle “For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” This is the Genesis verse heard around the …
Dear Indy...
How do I escape the abyss of gay loneliness? Does anyone anywhere find queer love? I am answering your question first, …
Five Ring Activism
NOlympics LA and global resistance to the Olympic Games
In 1932, while millions of unemployed Americans waited in breadlines, Los Angeles hosted the Olympics for the first time. Leading up …
Week in Kingdom Animalia
Birdbrains “It is the things we love most that destroy us,” wrote Suzanne Collins in the third book of the Hunger …
Day Zero
What happens when the taps run dry?
Last week, in the Cape Town suburb of Newlands, a fight broke out on a typically quiet cul-de-sac. The instigator, who …
Week in Bad Role Models
Don’t Drink & Drone The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had until September 30, 2015 to establish comprehensive rules for the use …
Week in Civil Disobedience
#CHRISTIESTILLHATESTRANSPORTATIONLAWSGATE Four years after #Bridgegate flooded Twitter, Chris Christie’s name is once again under fire over a gate scandal. Then, it …
Priming the Capital
Amazon’s bidding war and the allure of corporate takeover
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single corporation in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of …