Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Society
10/28/2020
How this year’s antiracism protests differ from past social justice movements
The numbers of whites who are participating is unprecedented.
10/27/2020
One Billion Americans
The argument for increased immigration
10/25/2020
South Bay will build 300 housing units in four months for the homeless
In normal times, it takes years and years to find enough political capital and money to build housing for the homeless. Coronavirus, and state funding, is changing that.
08/17/2020
Equality in the US Starts with Better Jobs
For too long, millions of Americans have been left behind with low wages, few benefits, unstable schedules, and lack of respect and dignity.
10/15/2020
How to Actually Make America Great
Reversing 50 years of social decline.
10/08/2020
The Deep Stories of Our Time
After Arlie Hochschild published her book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, just before the 2016 election, it came to feel prescient. The conversation Krista had with her in 2018 has now come to point straight to the heart of 2020—a year in which many of us might say we feel like strangers in our own land and in our own world. Hochschild created a field within sociology looking at the social impact of emotion. She explains how our stories and truths—what we try to debate as issues in our social and political lives—are felt, not merely factual. And she shares why, as a matter of pragmatism, we have to take emotion seriously and do what feels unnatural: get curious and caring about the other side.
10/14/2020
To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves.
09/24/2020
How Spirituality Affects Social Change
There is a strong correlation between spirituality and civic engagement. Yet it is only in conversation with others that people realize and articulate the connection.
10/05/2020
America Is Having a Moral Convulsion
Levels of trust in this country—in our institutions, in our politics, and in one another—are in precipitous decline. And when social trust collapses, nations fail. Can we get it back before it’s too late?
Renewal is hard to imagine. Destruction is everywhere, and construction difficult to see. The problem goes beyond Donald Trump. The stench of national decline is in the air. A political, social, and moral order is dissolving. America will only remain whole if we can build a new order in its place.
09/25/2020
How to remember the “Notorious RBG”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy, in so many ways, is fundamentally important to understanding our current national and global age of Black Lives Matter.
10/14/2020
Is Progress Possible on Racial Injustice?
As the United States continues its reckoning with racial injustice, the country’s civil unrest has often been lumped under the category of “things to worry about.” But there’s another way to look at the recent global uprisings—as a sign of progress.