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/ 5 months agoPhiladelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people
Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding coffers dry. Poor lists from...
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/ 5 months agoCivil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice
Lawson learned in India how to resist racism and subsequently trained his students on the systematic use of nonviolence to fight...
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/ 5 months agoSpikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part of broader strategies that push out homeless people
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
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/ 5 months agoCities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning
Turning excess office space into apartments isn’t a panacea for the housing shortage, but it’s producing thousands of new units yearly...
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/ 5 months agoInflation is cooling, but not fast enough for the Fed: Policymakers now expect only one rate cut in 2024
The Federal Reserve is being characteristically cautious.
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/ 5 months agoMicrorobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment
Green algae carry drug-loaded nanoparticles directly to the lungs, reducing side effects in other organs and increasing treatment efficiency.
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/ 5 months agoColumbia Law Review article critical of Israel sparks battle between student editors and their board − highlighting fragility of academic freedom
It’s now clear that tensions in academia regarding concerns about Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian people aren’t limited to campus protests.
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/ 5 months agoThere’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black
These endeavors end up turning the complexity of Black life into a stunt.
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/ 5 months agoAmerican womanhood is not what it used to be − understanding the backlash to Dobbs v. Jackson
A historian of gender and women’s rights explains how women’s protests focused on their rights evolved from the 1960s through the...
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/ 5 months agoPolitics is still both local and personal – but only for independents, not for Democrats or Republicans
Independents’ political views and policy preferences reflect the economic and social conditions they see and experience every day. Democrats and Republicans...
