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Universal basic income: The check could be in the mail

BOOK REVIEW | ‘Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World’ by Annie Lowrey When Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang introduced his “Freedom Dividend,” a plan to give every adult in ...

26 Jul 2019 - Ashley Archibald
What home means to David Lynch

The enigmatic artist and filmmaker has curated a series of events at an English gallery aptly called HOME David Lynch is such an enigma he’s become an adjective. The Urban Dictionary defines “Lynchian” as a “balance between the macabre and the mundane” an ...

26 Jul 2019 - Steven MacKenzie
After false murder confession by teens, attorney seeks to clarify rights of young suspects

In his book ‘She’s So Cold,’ Donald E. McInnis details the long, harsh interrogations of three boys who were wrongly accused. Now, he’s advocating for a simplified Miranda warning for children. Author and longtime defense attorney Donald E. McInnis has a ...

19 Jul 2019 - Libby Dowsett
This art will self-destruct

A British Columbia artist creates environmentally friendly pieces that decompose in nature In a lush corner of a West Coast rainforest, a nursery stump is covered in moss, a small huckleberry bush and the face of a contemplative woman. This is the work of ...

5 Jul 2019 - Michelle Gamage
Relaunching his Portland police novel, Kent Anderson laments worsened social climate

‘Night Dogs’ exposes racial and economic disparity in 1970s Portland The scene is Portland, Ore. A largely African-American community has been laid-off, bulldozed and forgotten, its neighborhoods awash in poverty and drugs. The police, even according to o ...

28 Jun 2019 - Jason Cohen
Aging in America: Dr. Louise Aronson redefines what it means to grow old

Her new book, 'Elderhood,' reveals a reality in which doctors receive little training in the complexities of treating the elderly With improvements to health care and quality of life in the 20th century, the American life expectancy lengthened. ...

14 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
Thom Hartmann: Why we have the 2nd Amendment – and pervasive gun violence

The progressive pundit talks to Street Roots about his new book highlighting American’s history of firearms, which have been a tool of oppression for centuries, he says Literally nowhere, at any time, under any circumstances – even remotely – did any of t ...

31 May 2019 - Emily Green
Unlocking the rainbow: Small press amplifies voices of LGBTQ+ prisoners

California-based ABO Comix works with dozens of incarcerated artists Casper Cendre’s small apartment has stacks of letters, envelopes and artwork in every corner. On their monitor is a spreadsheet with hundreds of names, a chronological record of every le ...

24 May 2019 - Quiver Watts
A deep history of bigotry and othering in the U.S.

BOOK REVIEW | "American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants” by Robert E. Bartholomew and Anja E. Reumschüssel In November 1688, an elderly Irish Catholic woman named Ann Glover was hanged in Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wa ...

3 May 2019 - Joe Martin
Writing unlocks the door: Realizing a childhood dream

COMMENTARY | Don’t let anyone crush your creativity. Tell your story. I wanted to write before I could even read. When I was 4 years old, Dad read a lot of children’s books to me, but my favorite was “The Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy.” The cover w ...

5 Apr 2019 - Dustin Dandliker