We should care about the plight of poor White Afrikaners, but that care should extend to all people in need. Continue reading »
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Category Archives: Commentary
Zimbabwe’s Crackdown on Sex Work Is Dumb and Won’t Work
The world’s oldest profession isn’t typically the safest. Continue reading »
Business / Commentary / Education / Housing / Poverty
Reaching the Growing Numbers of the Suburban Poor
The suburbs omnipresent in movies like American Beauty and television shows like Weeds don’t exist anymore. Continue reading »
Arts/Media / Commentary / Education / Gender / Health / Youth
Four-Year-Olds Don’t Like Fat People. Wonder Where They Got That From.
We need to move away from seeing someone’s size and assuming that we know absolutely anything about their health or lifestyle. Continue reading »
Commentary / Health / Law / Religion
Good News: Afghanistan Taliban Will No Longer Interfere With Polio Vaccinations
At this intersection of public health and politics, not only are lives being lost but there is support for the idea that, without a more cohesive effort to eradicate polio completely, the number of cases in these countries could increase to thousands a year in a matter of ten years. Continue reading »
Business / Commentary / Education / Youth
Why Are Seven-Year-Olds Going to School for Entrepreneurship in Utah?
Called Highmark Charter School, the K-9 school is supposed to teach students how to budget, supply and demand, and financial literacy in general. Continue reading »
Commentary / Environment / Food / Poverty / Technology
Urban Farms Might Solve the Problem of Hunger on the Gaza Strip
When I think of urban farms, I typically think of gentrifying neighborhoods in places like Austin and Brooklyn…not Gaza. Continue reading »
Commentary / Gender / Law
Here’s All the Women in U.S. Congress in One Sad Infographic
Let’s be honest: the United States Congress, the legislating body for the United States, is not known for being the most diverse. Continue reading »
Arts/Media / Business / Commentary / Health / Video
NBC’s Line-Up Puts Characters Who Are Physically Limited Center Stage
All three series look like they use the characters’ disabilities as a jumping off point, not as a means to limit them. Continue reading »
Business / Commentary / Food / Sexuality / Technology
Buycott App Lets You Officially Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
The user scans the barcode of an object in a supermarket, and Buycott shows you its corporate family tree. Buycott also has a way for you to track companies that have donated to causes in which you may or may not believe. Continue reading »
Should Minimum Sentencing Laws Play a Role in the War on Drugs in Latin America?
In Peru, the minimum sentence for drug offenses went from two years in jail to 25. Continue reading »
Commentary / Law / Seniors / Sexuality
Japanese Politician Calls Comfort Women “Necessary”, Like Some People’s Rights Are Worth More than Others’
Hashimoto’s comment is deeper than just historical inaccuracy and brutishness. Continue reading »
Arts/Media / Commentary / Race / Sexuality
The Problematic Depiction of Race on Display in ‘The Great Gatsby’
You might be thinking that it’s silly of me to expect political correctness on the subject of race from a story that takes place in the 1920s. I don’t, not really. But anyone who has read Gatsby has probably taken note of the depiction of race in a story in which no major characters are people of color. Continue reading »
Commentary / Gender / Views
Touching Women Without their Consent
The way we use language to describe women is so important because we use language and words to communicate our perceived realities. Continue reading »
Commentary / Health / Race / Sexuality / Technology
Google Maps for the United States of Hate
Researchers from Humboldt University have taken geotagged ableist, racist and homophobic Tweet over the past year and mapped them Continue reading »
Segregation and Discrimination Is Alive and Well against the Roma in Slovakia
Roma kids are often taught in separate classrooms, corralled to play in a separate recess facility and are refused from eating hot lunch with the Slovakian kids in at least one school. Continue reading »
Commentary / Law / Poverty / Race
What Would Make the Police Better? If They Protected and Served Everyone Equally
The position that the LAPD and other police forces across the country is a problematic one, not least because it often gets in the way of them doing their own jobs. Continue reading »
Arts/Media / Commentary / Sexuality / Video
Video Asks: When Did You Choose to Be Straight?
There are many people who assume that people choose to be gay. Continue reading »
Business / Gender / Health / Law / Commentary
Germany Is a Case Study in What Happens when Family Planning Policies Target the Wrong Things
Germany treats its mothers well, but it has one of the lowest birth rates on a continent filled with low birth rates. Continue reading »
Birth Control Access Shouldn’t Have Anything to Do with Politics
Instead of making it easier, it’s often made more difficult for women to access contraception and sexual health information Continue reading »
Business / Commentary / Health
Big Data Confirms: Yup, Healthcare Costs Make No Sense
Big Data is increasingly being used to put a number on things that we had a hunch about but didn’t know for certain. Continue reading »
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Charles Ramsey Is a Hero. Don’t Let the Internet Distort It for You.
The overlap of race and class that results in the meme-ing of Charles Ramsey, of Kai and of Antoine Dodson is simply an extension of the fact that we expect people of lower classes to perform for us if they want our sympathy. Continue reading »
Business / Commentary / Law
Why Legalizing Weed Will Do Nothing against Mexican Cartels In One Image
Proponents of marijuana legalization like to say that legalizing weed will chip away at the cartels but, based on the amount of diversification that cartels have done in recent years, their influence seems pretty intractable. Continue reading »
The Way We Talk about Public Schools Is Part of the Problem
People are always trying to find things to pinpoint the blame on when discussing the country’s failing schools, some more politically correct than others. Continue reading »
Arts/Media / Commentary / Gender / Health / Seniors / Youth
On Beauty: Women’s Bodies as Public Consumption
When do we ever get to evade that public ownership? Continue reading »
