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Women and Power in the Workplace

December 15, 2017 Editor

From today’s New York Times: “Revolution will come in a form we cannot yet imagine,” the critical theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney wrote in their 2013 essay “The Undercommons,”…

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In the Fight Against Poverty, Work Is Our Most Powerful Weapon

October 16, 2017 Editor

From today’s Harvard Business Review by Leila Janah: Fourteen years ago, I left suburban Los Angeles to teach English in rural Ghana. I’d expected, like so many young people with…

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Congress Must Act on DACA: The Dreamers Need a Vote, Not Talk

September 6, 2017 Editor

From today’s New York Times by David Leonhardt: Paul Ryan offered some warm words about Dreamers. Marco Rubio went further, distancing himself from President Trump’s new immigration policy by tweeting…

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How the wealth gap between restaurant goers and their servers is widening

August 22, 2017 Editor

From The Guardian, August 20, 2017 by Jill Cowan: Andrea Gillette lined up the bottles of fruit-flavored cocktails behind the bar. The guy who leans a ladder against the big…

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Trump’s Travel Ban Voided by Courts

February 4, 2017 Editor

The ill-fated attempt by President Donald Trump to keep immigrants and refugees out of the U.S., in some cases indefinitely, met stiff resistance not only from concerned citizens, the Democratic…

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SCOTUS upholds equal protection, rules against laws excluding gays and lesbians from marriage

June 30, 2015 Editor

What a long, strange trip it’s been. In 2003 I was a graduate student in the philosophy program at UCSD, taking a seminar on jurisprudence from the eminent moral philosopher…

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The Expanding World of Poverty Capitalism

August 29, 2014 Editor

From NYT “Opinion” August 26, 2014 by Thomas Edsall: In Orange County, Calif., the probation department’s “supervised electronic confinement program,” which monitors the movements of low-risk offenders, has been outsourced…

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The Economic Value of Treating Workers Humanely

August 29, 2014 Editor

From today’s NYT ‘Taking Note” Blog by Carol Giacomo: There has been so much regression on democracy and human rights in Myanmar recently that many people, this editorial page included,…

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What Standards of Child Labor Should Apply Overseas?

July 18, 2014 Editor

From today’s NYT “Room for Debate”: Child labor is condemned as immoral and exploitative, but despite pledges to crack down, international corporations continue to struggle to prevent minors from being…

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MI workers resist “right-to-work” law

December 11, 2012 Editor

Michigan lawmakers began debate today on controversial “right to work” legislation that would forbid requiring workers to pay union dues. The legislation is expected to pass despite widespread protests in…