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How technology is harming our ability to feel empathy

Dr. Helen Riess, author of 'The Empathy Effect,' says the way we communicate can influence how and what we feel for others Empathy can be learned, and it can be lost. Every time a person chooses to communicate through text message, email or soc ...

15 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
Lost in Kusamania

Yayoi Kusama, the artist behind the eye-popping, mind-bending, perspective-shifting mirror rooms, is as extraordinary as her art Known for her immersive installations and her bulbous, black-spotted pumpkin sculptures, Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s mo ...

1 Feb 2019 - Keva York
Art, poetry of Terry Houghton to be featured at First Thursday

Years after he died homeless, a treasure trove of his work will finally be seen at Street Roots Sometime around 2012, an elderly homeless man sleeping on a bench in Portland’s downtown park blocks rolled off and hit his head. He was taken to Oregon Health ...

25 Jan 2019 - Helen Hill
Inside the mind of Joe Gould, a legendary but troubled writer

Book review | “Joe Gould’s Teeth” by Jill Lepore Who is Joe Gould? He has been dead since 1957 but he keeps popping up. There was a time, during World War II, that his name had become known to many, thanks to a splendid profile about the unkempt little ma ...

30 Nov 2018 - Joe Martin
Portland’s story of oppression, through art

Abigail DeVille’s installation at PICA features Street Roots papers, vendor artwork Portland’s Institute for Contemporary Art’s 16,000-square-foot exhibition space in Northeast Portland is the site of Bronx-based artist Abigail DeVille’s massive installat ...

16 Nov 2018 - Helen Hill
The original ‘Black Klansman’ on white supremacy, then and now

Ron Stallworth, the African-American detective who infiltrated the KKK in 1978, talks to Street Roots about his observations undercover In October 1978, Detective Ron Stallworth infiltrated the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, making him the ...

26 Oct 2018 - Adam Sennott
Chris Hedges: The evidence for our impending doom

Trump is not to blame for our societal destruction, the author of 'America: The Farewell Tour' tells Street Roots; the problem is our political and economic systems What’s wrong with us? As a nation, we are riddled with depression and addiction. ...

5 Oct 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
8 books to help activists understand the state of America

Chris Hedges recommends these primers on imperialism and capitalism When looking for guidance or inspiration for the resistance, Chris Hedges doesn’t put much faith in so-called leaders. Chris Hedges was part of a team of reporters with the New York Times ...

5 Oct 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
Undercover in a private prison: The shameful legacy of prison labor

Journalist Shane Bauer has written a book about his four months inside as a security guard There are few pretenses under which it’s considered ethical for a journalist to go undercover. Shane Bauer used Poynter’s criteria as a basis for weighing his deci ...

21 Sep 2018 - Emily Green
Giving up our privacy without much thought

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