(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 29, 2021
Making Vaccines More Accessible Many essential workers still aren't vaccinated. It's not because they don't want to be it's because they can't get time off work.

SHARE        Friday, February 26, 2021
We Need Democracy, Not Billionaire Philanthropy Instead of funding only the projects that a single billionaire esteems worthy, democracy demands something different: input.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 21, 2021
Education Won't Stop Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy theories like QAnon are outlandish, dangerous, and often absurd. So why do people believe them?

SHARE        Friday, January 29, 2021
The GOP's Resentment Theater President Biden recently became the first president to condemn white supremacy by name in an inaugural address. Then some Republicans got mad because, they say, it's an attack on them.

SHARE        Saturday, January 23, 2021
The Time I Got Coffee With Hollywood Satanists Satanism is not very different from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Neither one believes in Satan or in a flying spaghetti monster. They're jokes intended to troll Christians who try to impose their beliefs on others.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 14, 2021
AddressThe Stagnation That Paved The Way For Trump Donald Trump won't be around forever. But the political crises his attacks on democracy have caused will outlive his one-term presidency.

SHARE        Wednesday, December 23, 2020
The Coming Battle Over Vaccines Natural scientists have done their part by creating vaccines. To get people to take them, we need social science.

SHARE        Monday, December 14, 2020
Failing Students Need Support, Not Blame Students don't fail because they are lazy. They fail because something is wrong in their lives -- and right now, so much is wrong.

SHARE        Sunday, November 29, 2020
We Need a Safety Net for Parents The collapse of child care and traditional schooling is having a devastating effect on women in particular.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 20, 2020
We Need A Safety Net For Parents/ Most women put their children ahead of their careers. In the workforce, that makes it harder for women to compete with men for top positions, because they're seen as less committed to their jobs."

SHARE        Thursday, October 15, 2020
Voter Suppression In A Pandemic Election Our electoral system is riddled with policies that amount to little more than voter suppression. America should work to expand voting to all eligible citizens so we can live up to the democratic ideals on which our nation was founded.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 4, 2020
The Great Irony Of Trump's Taxes We live in a deeply unequal society, and we are led by someone who benefits from that inequality. No executive order should gaslight us into thinking that's fair.

SHARE        Sunday, September 27, 2020
When Men Legally Controlled Women We have made progress allowing marriage to bring emotional and sexual satisfaction to both partners and allowing them to leave when it doesn't. Also, the increased equality for people of all races, genders, and sexual orientations we have gained in the century since women got the vote.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 18, 2020
I'm Still Mad About COVID-19. We All Should Be. We needed a real pandemic response. Instead, we got lies, snake oil cures, and speculation on bleach injections.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 27, 2020
Where Have I Heard These Trump Lines Before? White nationalists from the Klan to Trump glorify a past in which white men had more power than everyone else, casting themselves as protectors of white America against inferior "others."

SHARE        Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Colleges Are Still In Uncharted Territory There's no way to perfectly plan this semester beforehand, and we should plan in advance for flexibility and responsiveness to whatever unfolds.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 25, 2020
Trump's Authoritarianism Is Ill-suited To A Pandemic The Trump administration is apparently undertaking its latest effort to make 2020 more of a Kafkaesque nightmare than it already is.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Learning Not To Look Away Our emotional comfort isn't more important than racial justice. But unfortunately, many of us disengage when confronting the realities of racism becomes too painful.

SHARE        Saturday, June 6, 2020
Keep Your Eye On What's Important: Ending Police Brutality This has gone on for long enough, and the system that perpetuates it must change. Time after time, when the cop "involved" in the murder is charged with a crime, they are later acquitted almost without exception. Regardless of who peacefully protested and who "rioted," police violence against black bodies must end.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Efficiency Vs. Resilience Hospitals have enough beds, medical personnel, and equipment to handle a normal volume of patients, but nothing like this. They'd been cutting them back for years in the name of profit and efficiency. Now there's talk of converting empty college dormitories into hospitals.