This week my students turned in papers relating news articles to what they learned in class about parenting. Every single student’s paper is about how the pandemic is exacerbating pre-existing inequalities.
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Where Have I Heard These Trump Lines Before?
Rory McVeigh wrote The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, a study of the KKK in the 1920s, in 2009 — long before Donal Trump became president. But it could almost be about Trump today.
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Colleges Are Still in Uncharted Territory
In a few weeks, I begin my semester as a teaching assistant in an undergraduate sociology class. I am not sure what to expect.
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Whatever Your Survival Strategy Is, Do That
Strangely enough, navigating the world with mental illness has oddly prepared me for quarantine.
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A Death Sentence for Meatpackers
Meat processing plants are high risk for spreading COVID-19, and many are shutting down. Animals due for processing have nowhere to go, and they are being culled.
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Mike Pence Is the Worst Person to Lead a Coronavirus Response
A year after Trump took office, Saturday Night Live did a sketch called “What Even Matters Anymore?”
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A Broken Promise to Teachers and Nonprofit Workers
Before sharing my opinions about Trump’s recent proposal to cut student loan forgiveness, let me explain my own situation.
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Why Do We Have School Lunch Debt at All?
A Google search for “paying school lunch debt” reveals a long list of recent news stories about good Samaritans paying off the school lunch debt of children whose families cannot afford it.
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Sexual Misconduct and the Plague of ‘Himpathy’
Earlier this month, famed astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson appeared on The Late Show, where host Stephen Colbert asked Tyson about the allegations of sexual misconduct four women had brought against him.
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It’s Not About Your Straws or Your Light Bulbs
A few years ago, I had a cupcake problem. I’d go to the cupcake store almost daily and I’d eat at least one cupcake, sometimes more.