Reading Between the Rights - The American Prospect
WEBJun 9, 2011 · Reading Between the Rights. Nearly 50 years after Griswold v. Connecticut, conservatives think the Constitution protects your privacy. by Scott Lemieux. June 9, 2011. T his week marks the 46th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court reproductive-rights case Griswold v. Connecticut, in which the Court struck down Connecticut's ban on the ...
Marrying Yourself - The American Prospect
WEBMay 15, 2012 · And in real life- in 2010 Chen Wei-yih, a Taiwanese woman married herself, explaining that the pressure to get married is ridiculous. And last fall another woman, Desiree Moodie, in New York City, wound up single right before her wedding day and decided to marry herself in front of her friends and family. (I mean, who wants to cancel …
Why Joining a Union is Good For Your Well-Being
WEBJul 16, 2015 · New research suggests that workplace organizing is key to personal happiness and overall well-being. American labor unions are facing a political assault unparalleled since the New Deal, from the Trans-Pacific Partnership to "right-to-work," to the attack on public sector unions at the state level. And there's a good chance it'll just …
The State of Poverty in America - The American Prospect
WEBJune 22, 2012. We have two basic poverty problems in the United States. One is the prevalence of low-wage work. The other concerns those who have almost no work. The two overlap. Most people who are poor work as much as they can and go in and out of poverty. Fewer people have little or no work on a continuing basis, but they are in much worse ...
Rethinking Incarceration - The American Prospect
WEBJan 3, 2019 · The best-known effort to understand the prison crisis at a deeper level is Michelle Alexander's argument that incarceration is the “new Jim Crow.”. Alexander argued that mass incarceration is a racially motivated system for locking the black population into an inferior economic and political status.
The Racial Wealth Gap - The American Prospect
WEBNov 6, 2013 · For every dollar in assets owned by whites in the United States, blacks own less than a nickel, a racial divide that is wider than South Africa's at any point during the apartheid era. The median net worth for black households is $4,955, or about 4.5 percent of whites' median household wealth, which was $110,729 in 2010, according to Census data.
The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington
WEBAug 23, 2013 · The Team Assembles "In 1956, when I was a student at Brooklyn College, Mike Harrington told Tom [Kahn, another Brooklyn College student] and me to go up to this office in Manhattan, on 57 th Street, to work with Bayard Rustin," Rachelle Horowitz remembers. Harrington (who was to author The Other America, which sparked the War …
Will the Supreme Court Help the Right ‘Starve the Beast’?
WEBDecember 6, 2023. Expand. Evan Vucci/AP Photo. The long-standing goal of the Republican right, in the famous words of anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, is to starve the beast of the deep state by denying it revenue. The right may get at least some of its wish if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiffs in the case of Moore v.
Why I’m Still Hopeful About America - The American Prospect
WEBJan 16, 2020 · Why I’m Still Hopeful About America. When I graduated college in 1968, I recall thinking this nation would never recover. But we bounced back. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes her way to a vote in the Capitol in November. If climate change, nuclear standoffs, assault weapons, hate crimes, mass killings, Russian trolls, …
Where Has All the Water Gone? - The American Prospect
WEBMay 23, 2008 · No one knows where this water is going to come from. Scientists call them "hot stains" -- the parts of the Earth now running out of potable water. They include northern China, large areas of Asia and Africa, the Middle East, Australia, the Midwestern United States, and sections of South America and Mexico. The worst effects on people are, of ...
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