Local and state officials 'built mass incarceration, and that’s who’s going to unbuild it,' says James Forman Jr., author of 'Locking Up Our Own' It is well documented how mass incarceration reinforces a racial caste system in Americ ...
7 Jul 2017 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left,’ by Jeffery Webber In the early 2000s, South America was a beacon of hope for developing nations. In country after country ...
30 Jun 2017 - Mike Wold
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
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond’ by Marc Lamont Hill When you hear about one more killing by police, read one more statistic about racial disparities in arrests and mass incarceration ...
27 Dec 2016 - Mike Wold
‘Aurora’ by Kim Stanley Robinson Space — the final frontier? The last walk on the moon was almost 50 years ago, but there’s been little doubt in science fiction movies and novels that someday humankind will break away from our little planet and colonize o ...
4 Oct 2016 - Mike Wold
If you’re not in some way involved with public schools, you may not be aware of the explosion of standardized testing in schools over the past 10 years. Preparing for and taking these tests has significantly affected teaching and learning on all levels in ...
28 Jan 2015 - Mike Wold
One singer you won’t likely hear on a ’50s oldies station is Harry Belafonte, yet he was one of the most popular singers of that decade. He made a name for himself in the emerging folk music genre, with five gold albums between 1955 and 1963. For a time, ...
6 Dec 2014 - Mike Wold
At last count, the U.S. had more than 500 military bases in other countries. It spends as much on its armed forces as the rest of the world combined. According to author John Michael Greer, that’s because the United States is an empire and its military do ...
19 Aug 2014 - Mike Wold
Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld, author of “ What Unions No Longer Do,” describes union decline as if he were a building inspector describing the key weaknesses in an aging building where unions are a failing structural element. In sharp contrast, Steve Early’ ...
14 May 2014 - Mike Wold
Former economics correspondent Elizabeth Becker looks at the impact of our roving hearts Politically conscious Americans have an ambivalent relationship to tourism. On the one hand, many of us love to travel to foreign countries — if we can afford it. We ...
27 Aug 2013 - Mike Wold