Tag: inequality

The author of “Heartland,” a National Book Award longlisted memoir about growing up poor in rural America, gives her views on politics, identity, and cultural appropriation.

Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department rescinded Obama-era policy documents that provided guidelines on affirmative action.

It’s time to end the pernicious myth that giving money directly to panhandlers won’t help them.

It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.

Without a reliable subway system, the city “won’t die, but it will become a different place.”

At Buzzfeed, Kiese Laymon tells the story of his early years teaching at an elite liberal arts college in New York.

It was the thirtieth fire in less than two months. Who was trying to burn down Accomack County?

For the residents of Nucla, Colorado, the enemies are the liberals next door.

A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege.

Rich patient or poor patient? The New York Times and the Washington Post have dedicated a series to each.

“This is why I always pair privilege with obliviousness; obliviousness is privilege’s form of deprivation.”

Video: An incredibly moving piece by The New York Times Magazine writer.

Paul Krugman, in the New York Review of Books, on Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the new book from Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics: It therefore came as a revelation when Piketty and his colleagues showed that incomes of the now famous “one percent,” and of even narrower groups, are actually […]