![In Defense of Coal Miners – Centering Corporate Cultural Manipulation in the Age of Environmentalism](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Schermata-2021-06-30-alle-16.01.50.png)
Opinion
![Kamala Harris, In Context](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Kamala-Harris-accepts-the-VP-nomination-2020-DNC-CREDIT-Carolyn-Kaster-AP-e1599502468648.jpg)
Kamala Harris, In Context
Harris is a complicated public official who is routinely denied the nuance afforded to other people in her position.
![The Winter of Our Discontent](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pasted-image-0-36-e1599495299979.png)
The Winter of Our Discontent
America has become so bitterly divided that it may be impossible to emerge from 2020 with the pillars of our republic intact.
![Stalemate: An Analysis of the Democratic and Republican Conventions](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pasted-image-0-35-e1599337148615.png)
Stalemate: An Analysis of the Democratic and Republican Conventions
Biden may hold the lead three months from the election, but his win is far from guaranteed.
![More Than a Witty Headline: How Reading for Police Blotter Radicalized Me](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/unnamed-6-e1599070154213.jpg)
More Than a Witty Headline: How Reading for Police Blotter Radicalized Me
Police blotter has lent me extraordinary insight into the incessant reliance that members of my community have on police officers, and it has demonstrated the glaring racism of my neighbors.
![The Coming Revolution in Higher Ed](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/FFQ4BS3R5V5CODNDJEYI4JTGXQ-e1599073195776.jpg)
The Coming Revolution in Higher Ed
It seems conceivable that within a generation, a significant percentage—if not an outright majority—of American students will not attend a four-year, on-campus university. The average American student might settle for a combination of classes at their local community college to supplement their main course of study, a smattering of online certificates from Harvard, Google, and other big-name schools and corporations. The rich universities will get richer; the poor will close.
![Centering the Voices of Refugees](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/FirstYearBook_TheRefugees_08292018_5218-e1599003761156.jpg)
Centering the Voices of Refugees
According to writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, popular narratives fail to capture these salient aspects of refugees’ lives. Instead, refugees stories’ are “invisible” until they are “hypervisible…forgotten by those who are not refugees until they turn into a menace.”
![The Brain Gain](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/pasted-image-0-33-e1598816037569.png)
The Brain Gain
Shelled by the coronavirus and priced out of their apartments, residents are leaving the city in record numbers. But could the exodus save small towns?
![61 Million: On Disability Justice](http://3.20.180.125/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/pasted-image-0-32-e1598393434457.png)
61 Million: On Disability Justice
Disability rights are human and civil rights deeply intertwined with nearly every aspect of society. Even with 30 years of the ADA, those with disabilities often are denied and deprived of the access, rights, and freedoms that they have been promised.