BOOK REVIEW | In ‘Privacy: And How To Get it Back’ author B.J. Mendelson says we’re up against the power of apathy in a battle which only wealthy tech companies win The problem with universal basic income is that proponents haven’t suggested a good source ...
10 Aug 2018 - Megan Wildhood
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
BOOK REVIEW | Judges and government agencies that looked the other way played an important role in the rise of our next president, author David Cay Johnston explains There’s something in “The Making of Donald Trump” for everyone. For Christians, one of ...
23 Nov 2016 - Megan Wildhood
BOOK REVIEW | 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right' by Jane Mayer If you care about the poor, the environment, fair taxes, workers’ rights, consumer protection and safety regulations, you’re li ...
15 Nov 2016 - 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
BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Rule of Nobody’: Philip K. Howard searched for someone but came up empty-handed Take any problem facing our society today,” Philip K. Howard challenges, “and ask yourself, who has the authority to fix it? The answer is nobody.” The cour ...
7 Jan 2016 - Megan Wildhood