BOOK REVIEW | The writer of 'The Once and Future Liberal' provides an elegantly concise how-we-got-here history I had thought the malaise of relentlessly focusing on identity was just me. That only I was feeling like an ant under a magnifying gl ...
1 Jun 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus’ 'A World of Three Zeros' is focused on solutions It’s important to start with the realization that poverty is not caused by poor people.” Let me rephrase Muhammad Yunus, author of “A Wo ...
6 Apr 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | In 'The Vanishing American Corporation,' Gerald F. Davis argues today's severe income inequality is a result of a decline in corporations If you’re feeling shut off from the workforce, meaningful career advancement, or the abi ...
23 Feb 2018 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” by Cathy O’Neil If you’ve been denied job after job, even some of those entry-level, low-wage positions, Cathy O’Neil can explain. If the rates you’re ...
1 Sep 2017 - Megan Wildhood
'We need to change the story of wealth,' says the Oscar Mayer heir Chuck Collins is the great-grandson of Oscar Mayer. A member of the economic elite, you might be tempted to stereotype him as callous. But in 1986, he donated his inheritance of ...
28 Jul 2017 - Megan Wildhood
Javier Auyero's collection of student works explores poverty in today's American At my company’s holiday party in December, a coworker from the East Coast told me of her shock at Seattle’s visible poverty. “You can’t miss it unless you don’t eve ...
9 Aug 2016 - Megan Wildhood
Robert Scheer, author of ‘They Know Everything About You,’ explains key issues in his book Robert Scheer is a political writer, editor of Truthdig.com and an activist who has interviewed every president from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. He is the autho ...
5 Nov 2015 - Megan Wildhood
After years as a loner adrift in his own world, Ken (Balcomb) had finally found a peer group and a mission,” writes Joshua Horwitz in his new book. Balcomb was the first to do in-depth studies of the various pods of orca whales that live in Washington’s P ...
25 Feb 2015 - Megan Wildhood