It’s Still Bernie
Our new issue, “Failure Is an Option,” is out now. We discuss why the United States’ institutional breakdown won’t stop after Trump leaves office and what can be done to improve things for working peo
Laziness Does Not Exist – E Price – Medium
I’ ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years, I’ve witnessed students of all ages procrastinate on papers, skip presentation days, miss assignments, and let due dates fly by. I’
Know Your Enemy: Ignorance and The Principle of Fallibility | Capable Men
Introduction: The Principle of Fallibility It is generally accepted by most that the complexity of the world far exceeds our capacity to fully comprehend it. Meaning we’re each forced to resort to var
The Socialist Case Against the SAT
Our new issue, “Failure Is an Option,” is out now. We discuss why the United States’ institutional breakdown won’t stop after Trump leaves office and what can be done to improve things for working peo
What We’ve Learned in Year 1 of Russiagate
Demonstrators called for an investigation into possible Russian involvement in the 2016 election, Boston, February 26, 2017. (AP Photo / Steven Senne) The publication of a House Republican memo allegi
Single Payer Could Solve the Rural Hospital Crisis
United States Policy Health Rural hospitals are closing at an alarming rate. And the profit motive is to blame. The now-shuttered United Hospital in Creston, IA. photolibrarian / Flickr Our new issue,
The Teenage Smartphone Problem Is Worse Than You Think
At a certain moment last year, an uncomfortable silence took hold in my classroom. Lauren had volunteered to read the part of Mama during a reading of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun . Lauren
The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone
I have been in school for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at
Childless Iowa: More communities left with few, if any, kids
CLOSE Ford Lillard grew up in Wiota and is now raising his two kids there with his wife, Liz. Only problem is their children, Bailey and Hunter, are the only two in town. Ford is the town's mayor and has a plan to bring the town back to life. Brian Powers/The Register Liz Lillard bakes with her son…
How Giuseppe Verdi’s music helped bring Italy together
Can you imagine any country today in national mourning over the death of a classical composer? When Giuseppe Verdi, born 200 years ago next week, died in January 1901, Italy wept as one. Almost a quar
The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back
Mary-Faith Cerasoli has been reduced to “sleeping in her car, showering at college athletic centers and applying for food stamps,” The New York Times recently reported . Is she unemployed? No, in fact
Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students Gwen Beatty in James Sutter’s classroom at Wellston High School in Ohio, where she and Mr. Sutter butted heads over the issue of human-caused climat
Are After-Work Drinks a Conspiracy Against Women?
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is not the easiest guy to love. He is, as Sam Knight wrote, “an old-fashioned lefty” who believes that Britain should surrender its nuclear arms and withdraw from NATO. He makes a show of having to wear a tie. He has been willing to cut off the electoral prospects…
As Democratic Voters Shift Left, ‘Liberal Media’ Keep Shifting Right
In the past few years, the Democratic Party’s rank and file have shifted left on major issues. From healthcare to legalization of drugs to taxes , the heart of the party has grown more progressive—and
If Declining Towns 'Deserve to Die,' Where Should Their Residents Go?
Moving trailers sit in a parking lot in Biloxi, Mississippi. Spencer Platt / Getty In 2011, economists from the Federal Reserve and the University of Notre Dame issued a working paper called “Internal
Why White Parents Won't Choose Black Schools
Terrified Student hiding in School bus Last year when I attempted to pick my daughter up from school, the volunteers in the carpool line tried to put a fourth grader in my car, not the four year old I
The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death
Last September, a very twenty-first-century type of story appeared on the company blog of the ride-sharing app Lyft. “Long-time Lyft driver and mentor, Mary, was nine months pregnant when she picked u
Every Good Boy Does Fine
Photograph by Mauricio Alejo Two summers ago, I was playing concerts in Santa Fe, some five hours’ drive from where I grew up. Travel is more difficult for my parents than it used to be, but they made the trek to hear me. They brought along a strange gift—a black notebook with my name on the front,…
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a
A Bigger Problem Than ISIS?
According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assessment, “Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world.” Photograph by Victor J. Blue for The New Yorker On the morning of August 7, 2014, a team of fighters from the Islamic State, riding in pickup trucks and purloined American Humvees, swept out…
How People Learn to Become Resilient
Perception is key to resilience: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as a chance to learn and grow? Illustration by Gizem Vural Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist and clinician at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. But one boy…
The Drug Lessons They Should Have Taught You at School | VICE | United States
This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Primary school. Am I right, guys? Those lazy, crazy days of eating Cheestrings, doodling Slipknot logos, and being horrible to everyone all the time. Then comes secondary school and most people's first flutter with drugs. Depending on your background,…