Cancer Is Becoming Much More Survivable In The U.S.
Today, 1 in 3 people is expected to get cancer in their lifetime. The number of American cancer cases increased significantly throughout the 20th century. In the 1940s, 1 in 16 people…
These recently discovered love letters between two men in World War II are astounding.
It’s easy to forget, amid so much ugliness and political unrest, that we live in a relatively tolerant time. Consider it from the perspective of Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher,…
Civil rights and voter suppression in the US
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. Crystal Mason, middle, sitting at the defense table at Tim Curry Justice…
Deadly Signals
As we sped through the heartland night, the car’s crackling radio kept all our minds on the war in Manhattan: “Enemy now in sight above the Palisades,” said the radio…
“The Wasted Headline” by Irvin S. Cobb
Veterans of the newspaper game whose memories of active affairs in print shops run back for so far as two decades should have no trouble in fixing chronologically the period…
If the government puts soldiers on the streets in a hard Brexit, we must refuse to obey them
British soldiers in Khazakstan, by SSGT Jeffrey Allen, USAFJust when you thought that Brexit couldn’t get any more chaotic, up popped Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson to assure that he has…
Artist Jackie Amezquita Walked From The U.S.-Mexico Border To Los Angeles
Sunset descends upon Los Angeles' Chinatown as a crowd gathers inside an art space filled with socially-conscious art. Called “Decentralized,” the works here largely look at issues of displacement and…
Cardinal Directions
Deepak stepped out for his morning jog around the neighborhood. The mild spring morning was sunny; the bright yellow daffodils, in full bloom just a few days ago, were now…
Is symbolic politics an impediment to economic equality?
Jagmeet Singh at the Ontario Federation of Labour Convention, November 2017.Wikicommons/ OFL Communications Department. Some rights reserved. Let me begin with a heretical proposition: anti-racism may contribute not to combatting…
Man receives hilariously helpful note from 6th grader after hit and run.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some of them wear Jansport backpacks with lots of keychains. When the Twitter user Andrew Sipowicz returned to his car to realize he was the…