Urban Street Ethnography Interruptus

Every semester, for almost a decade, I close out the term, by…

Prison Tropes “R” Us: Why it’s so damn hard to reform correctional facilities in the United States and what can we do change this state of affairs

Lots of things are standing in the way of reforming correctional…

Bring on the enablers: Why are so many Republicans still making illogical arguments against the impeachment of Trump by the Senate?

You have seen and heard them, the familiar faces of the Republican…

Should people who didn’t follow the CDC guidelines to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 be given priority for treatment in overflowing and understaffed hospitals?

One of the most important pressing moral questions of our time,…

Now that Congress has impeached Trump for a second time, what else can we do to improve the current political situation in the United States?

Neither last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, nor the…