Roundup Top Ten for May 8, 2020
The Policy Mistakes from the 1990s that have Made Covid-19 Worseby Heather Ann ThompsonPoliticians should have learned that the walls they imagine separating those serving time from those outside are, in fact, completely porous. |
Meatpacking Work has Become Less Safe. Now it Threatens Our Meat Supplyby Chris DeutschThe modern food system rests on a thin reed of worker abuse and poor sanitation that covid-19 has finally broken. |
Ida B. Wells Won the Pulitzer. Here’s Why that Matters.by Sarah L. SilkeyPresident Trump continues the long history of trying to delegitimize black women journalists. |
Ask Who Paid for America’s Universitiesby Tristan Ahtone and Robert LeeThe Morrill Act created endowment funds from land that the U.S. Government took from Native Americans with little or no compensation. Addressing the problems of public universities must not exclude addressing the problems of Native communities. |
COVID-19 and the Color Lineby Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jason Q. Purnell, and Jamala RogersThe disproportionate toll COVID-19 has taken on black Americans is a product of conscious choices by actors at every level of government and private industries like banking, insurance and real estate. |
Female Husbandsby Jen ManionFar from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout history. |
Cities and States Need Aid – But Also Oversightby Daniel Wortel-London and Brent CebulThe history of New Deal-era federal aid to local governments suggests that cities need both funds and strict oversight; programs that worked through local business elites often created unsupportable demands on local finances. |
Coronavirus Is Making The Case For Black Reparations Clearer Than Everby William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten MullenAmerica has failed to seize previous chances to eliminate racial inequality and grant black Americans access to the same opportunities as whites. |
The Coronavirus Could Rewrite the Rules for Silicon Valleyby Margaret Pugh O'MaraThe blue-collar workers who power the digital economy — including fulfillment center workers and app-based couriers — are pushing for higher pay and better protection, just as Detroit autoworkers did 90 years ago. |
Preserving Postal Service and Mail Voting is Essentialby Andrew W. KahrlIf you are shocked that Republicans would use this crisis to end the postal service as we know it, then you haven’t been paying attention. |