Breaking the Cycle of Street Harassment
For far too many women across the world, enduring street harassment is a fact of life. From getting catcalled to groped to followed home, there’s a good chance that even if [...]
Social Justice
Arizona Mother of Two Deported
Arizona resident Guadalupe “Lupita” Garcia de Rayos made headlines late last week as the possible first person deported under President Trump’s recent [...]
The Global Gag Rule is Back and Bigger Than Ever
Nearly 8 years ago, one of then-newly-inaugurated US president Barack Obama’s earliest executive orders reversed the global gag rule, a rule banning non-governmental [...]
Justice Like a Home: The Perpetual Work of the Beloved Community
In interactions on everything from the gender wage gap to racial inequalities and gaps in representation, I often get asked some version of the question, “When will you be [...]
Welfare Gap
With a new Republican majority, those of us who care about the poor are steeling for a new round of cuts to benefits. To his credit, Trump didn’t run [...]
Together, We Make Social Policy Change Happen
We live in an individualistic society. And we believe that people are individually and personally responsible for their own fate. We enact our laws that way. We create our [...]
What is Limiting America’s Economic Mobility?
Income inequality Countries with bigger income differences tend to have much lower economic mobility. Although there is more flexibility in the middle, those at the top can [...]
#TakeItDown
A week ago, a white supremacist walked into a South Carolina church and murdered nine black churchgoers. In the wake of this hate-crime, there has been a lot of strong [...]
Death Penalty for Dzhokhar
Just over two years after shaking up the city of Boston, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received his sentencing for participating with his now deceased brother in the 2013 Boston Marathon [...]
New Roots Growing For Marijuana
The stage is set for the legalization of marijuana, that mysterious plant getting the nation into a great, big frenzy of sorts. There are sharks on the prowl, fish swimming, [...]
