MLB Is Crumbling. Blame the Owners by Stephanie Apstein I’ve a fan of baseball since I was a kid, when WGN’s afternoon airings of Chicago Cubs games hooked me. But I’ve also been highly aware for many years that the … Continue reading Outside Reading — After the Boys of Summer Have Gone edition
America, This is Your Chance by Michelle Alexander Well, this is the article I’ve been waiting for. There are few people more qualified to comment on this particular moment in U.S. history than Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Fire This Time edition
Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. Not long ago, Sarah … Continue reading Laughing Matters — Sarah Cooper, “How to lobster”
“Can We Live?” by Tananarive Due Now that we’re almost halfway through this calendar year that epitomizes the curse of interesting times, it’s useful to remember that the the cataclysms of now have historic precursors that we can learn from. … Continue reading Outside Reading — Precedented edition
This Week Has Happened Before by Julia Craven I call it scar tissue that you walk around with, and scar tissue never allows you to fully function like you functioned. You always got to work around it. You always got … Continue reading Outside Reading — Scar Tissue edition
Legalize All Essential Workers by Alfredo Corchado Don’t Blame Econ 101 for the Plight of Essential Workers by Annie Lowery Tuition-Free College For Workers by Michelle Miller-Adams A UW System crisis a decade in the making by Nicholas Fleisher and … Continue reading Outside Reading — Essential edition
Toxic Masculinity Is Going to Get Us All Killed by Jessica Valenti Today at the grocery store, I saw two different couples comprised of a woman wearing a mask and a man opting against it. “Make no mistake: This is … Continue reading Outside Reading — Hers and Only Hers Masks
Restoring the Economy Is the Last Thing We Should Want by Douglas Rushkoff Writing for GEN, Douglas Rushkoff is the latest to make the persuasive case that getting “back to normal” should not be our national goal, especially in the case of our fiscal operations. There are flatly better ways to approach the work and investment that undergirds the economy, and the pain being felt right now exposes what’s fundamentally ill-conceived about the modern version of U.S. capitalism, warped into thinly disguised feudalism by forty-plus years of pernicious assaults on the institutions that redress ills and preserve fairness in society. … Continue reading Outside Reading — Stronger Where It Healed edition
A National Death Wish: How Science, Education, and the Future Were Sacrificed For Profit and Power by Jared Yates Sexton As Jared Yates Sexton meticulously argues in his new essay, published by The Muckrake, where we are at now is … Continue reading Outside Reading — Is Our Children Learning? edition
What Have Epidemiologists Learned About the Coronavirus? by Isaac Chotiner As the most committed members of the reckless-idiot brigade start to push back against sincere efforts to preserve the public health, taking to the street with their weaponry and Confederate … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Answers We Need edition
