Since ‘Streetwise’ was released almost four decades ago, inequality has only grown larger Andrew Hedden is the associate director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Washington. June marks t ...
7 Jul 2021 - Andrew Hedden
‘Thomas Mann’s War’ by Tobias Boes chronicles the European anti-fascist, whose books were burned by Nazis F lames of ignorance and hate lit the darkness on a May evening in 1933. The consuming pyre was fed by thousands of heaped books set on fire by Nazis ...
20 Jan 2021 - Joe Martin
OPINION | Reflecting on the poetry of Daniel Cox and its reverberations through these difficult times Daniel Cox handed me a thick packet of paper from a notebook, folded in half. Poems. “I miss people,” he said softly. Kaia Sand is the executive direc ...
24 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
COMMENTARY | Shorty’s Corner, a spot near I-205 adorned with ever-changing sculptures, was a Portland treasure Every time I turned onto Interstate 205, I saw a new art installation on a small, triangular patch of earth near Foster Boulevard. I would catch ...
10 Jan 2020 - Sara Kirschenbaum
COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...
1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
Highlights from some of our newsmakers of the past year January 5 Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize winner “When we were in caves, we were not sending job applications to anybody. We took care of ourselves and did that for hundreds of thousands of years. ...
28 Dec 2018 - Street Roots
The actor turned activist has become an everyman in the center of national controversies, from #MeToo to the Kavanaugh hearings Thanks to her tweet in October last year, actor and activist Alyssa Milano transformed Tarana Burke’s grassroots #MeToo campaig ...
16 Nov 2018 - The Big Issue A...
A sampling of some of our favorite conversations from the past year Jan. 20 Barney Frank Former congressman They’re going to make it easier for people to ignore our rights by saying religion trumps our rights. That’s what they are going to do. Feb. 10 ...
29 Dec 2017 - Street Roots
COMMENTARY | Rick Rubin's 'Naked Against the Rain' has gotten new life; Per Fagereng's 'Jack Moloney’s Century' is a charm DIY literature, though easy enough to produce, is difficult to get to the public. Once it is written, ...
7 Jul 2017 - Douglas Spangle
BOOK REVIEW | 'How to Make White People Laugh' uses comedy to tackle social justice issues It may be possible to change the world one joke at a time. At least, that’s the thrust of Iranian-American comic Negin Farsad's May 24 release, a boo ...
19 May 2017 - Mike Wold